Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
Playing With Reality is a foreboding prehistory of AI. Clancy conveys how we became so in thrall to gaming that we forgot where the field of play stops and the real world begins — who gets to be a player and who is merely being played.
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Superbly argued ... A fascinating and brilliant critique of the many ways in which thinking about games has been used for nefarious purposes, although it’s somewhat thinner as a celebration – which it also aims to be – of the joy and creativity in play itself.
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Intriguing ... While this is absorbing material, the nature of the subject means that parts of the book require close attention. For diligent readers, it’s well worth the effort.
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