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Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways?
Digital discourse creates a game-like structure in our perception of reality. For everything that happens, every fact we gather, every interpretation of it we provide, we have an ongoing ledger of the “points” we could garner by posting about it online. Sometimes, something will happen in real life that provides such an outstanding move in the game... See more
The New Atlantis • Reality Is Just a Game Now
Gamifying governance means that the point of governance is no longer the outcome that we arrive at, but the process of governance itself—just like the point of playing a game is to play the game itself.
Lightspeed Democracy • Go Fork Yourself - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
Games—whether they're sports, board games, video games, or party games—necessarily simplify values and goals, providing the structure for play. In playing a game, we temporarily take on those values and goals for the pleasure of the experience.66
Tara McMullin • What Works: A Comprehensive Framework to Change the Way We Approach Goal Setting
When we play games, we take on temporary agencies—temporary sets of abilities and constraints, along with temporary ends. We have a significant capacity for agential fluidity, and games make full use of that capacity.