It’s all just a game until society forfeits the gross domestic product of Haiti. As much fun as the Pac-Man game was (not all that fun), it sure did come at a price. The embedded game caused web surfers to spend 44 seconds on Google.com, rather than the more standard 11. Multiply that by the number of people (lots) and their wage (about $25/hour) and you’ve got a very expensive timesuck on your hands.
I’m guessing that Lost message boards cost the economy more money, but I think NASA would need to get involved in the tabulation of that one.
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