Can you explain why it is that the Transportation Department is looking for the next generation of air traffic controllers in a pack of video gamers? That might seem odd, Peter, but we We polled a random sample of our academy students in Oklahoma City for air traffic control. Of the 250 that we polled, only three of them were not gamers. And so we thought, well listen, there's a connection here. They problem solve, they're spatially aware, they do multiple things at the same time. It's very reminiscent of what air traffic controllers do. (03:01–03:12)
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