From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.
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Sherry Turkle was a contemporary American social scientist and psychologist. Sherry Turkle is an American sociologist. She is the Abby Rockefeller MauzĂ© Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more on Wikipedia →