Today, Baker is the vice president of transportation and housing at the nonprofit Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Playing SimCity, Baker said, 'helped remind me of the importance of local government, which is what I ended up doing for a living.” Instead of writing a term paper about three different models for how cities can develop, Baker proposed building three scenarios in SimCity, then letting the game run on its own and writing about how his virtual cities fared. This conscientious approach gave him a boost in a class on local government. I enjoyed making my city run well,” he recalled.
'I was not one of the players who enjoyed Godzilla running through your city and destroying it. He took a careful approach to the computer game. Jason Baker was studying political science at UC Davis when he got his hands on SimCity.