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The game : a digital turning point / Alessandro Baricco ; translated by Clarissa Botsford

By: Baricco, Alessandro, 1958- [author].
Contributor(s): Botsford, Clarissa [translator].
Publisher: San Francisco : McSweeney's, ©2020Description: 319 p: 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781952119002; 1952119006.Subject(s): Information society | Technological innovations -- Social aspects | Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects | Digital media -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Username, Password -- Play -- Maps -- Level up
Summary: "Fourteen years after the publication of his cult classic I Barbari, Baricco returns in The Game to the topic of change, in a journey that maps out the transformations that the digital revolution has wrought upon the landscape of human experience. From Space Invaders to the PlayStation, from Windows 95 to the conundrum of artificial intelligence, Baricco traces the trajectory of a revolution in the way we think, feel, and communicate - and seeks to discover what it might actually mean for our future." -- Amazon
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Translated from the Italian

Username, Password -- Play -- Maps -- Level up

"Fourteen years after the publication of his cult classic I Barbari, Baricco returns in The Game to the topic of change, in a journey that maps out the transformations that the digital revolution has wrought upon the landscape of human experience. From Space Invaders to the PlayStation, from Windows 95 to the conundrum of artificial intelligence, Baricco traces the trajectory of a revolution in the way we think, feel, and communicate - and seeks to discover what it might actually mean for our future." -- Amazon

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