Playing with Reality

Name: Playing with Reality
Brand: EMKA
SKU: 9780241545508
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CLANCY, KELLY

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ISBN

9780241545508

Mladinska knjiga ID

9780241545508

Leto izida

2024

Datum izida

18.06.2024

Število strani

368

Status dobavljivosti

7-10 delovnih dni

Založnik

Penguin Books Ltd

Avtor

Clancy, Kelly

Dimenzije

240 x 160 x 30

BIC

PDA,PDZ,UYQ,WD

Opis

A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress.

We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media—bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combined. They are also fun.

But as neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy argues, it’s time we started taking them more seriously. In Playing With Reality, she chronicles the riveting and hidden history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. Games, Clancy shows us, have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history.

War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behaviour and brought us to the brink of annihilation—yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy.

Games also inform the basic systems that govern our daily lives: the social media and technology that can warp our preferences, polarise us, and manufacture our desires. Lucid, thought-provoking, and masterfully told, Playing With Reality makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature.