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Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World Hardcover 2024 by Kelly...

Description: A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what's at stake when we forget what games we're really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They're also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, political science, evolutionary biology, the development of computers and AI, cutting-edge neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. Neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy shows how intertwined games have been 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 behavior and brought us to the brink of annihilation--yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology design. 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. In this revelatory new work, Clancy makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature and our actions. Product details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593538188 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593538180 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.91 x 9 inches SHIPPING Shipping All items fast! The majority of orders are shipped using USPS Priority Mail and UPS Ground if requested. 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Price: 24.95 USD

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-11-29T21:11:32.000Z

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Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World Hardcover 2024 by Kelly...

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Restocking Fee: No

Return shipping will be paid by: Seller

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)

Original Language: English

Unit Quantity: 1

ISBN: 0593538188

Book Title: Playing with Reality : How Games Have Shaped Our World

Item Length: 9.3 in

Item Height: 1.2 in

Item Width: 6.3 in

Author: Kelly Clancy

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Game Theory, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, History

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2024

Genre: Science, Mathematics

Item Weight: 19.4 Oz

Number of Pages: 368 Pages

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