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As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story -…

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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a…
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two! — Ernie Banks
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at… — Brian Clough
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. — Shaquille O'Neal
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons
I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept… — Satoshi Tajiri
The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience. — Gary Gygax
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment… — Thomas A. Edison
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually… — Simon McBurney
If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games.… — Jane McGonigal
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games.… — Jane McGonigal
When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and… — Candace Pert

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