Finite and Infinite Games : A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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Printer-friendly version| Title | Finite and Infinite Games : A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Pub Year | 1987 |
| Authors | Carse, J. P. |
| Publisher | Random House Publishing Group |
| Keywords | machine |
| Notes |
machine"'Machine' is used here as inclusive of technology and not as an example of it--as a way of drawing attention to the mechanical rationality of technology. We might be surprised by the technological devices that spring from the imagination of gifted inventors and engineers, but there is nothing surprising in the technology itself. The physicist's bomb is as thoroughly mechanical as the Neanderthal's lever--each the exercise of calculable cause-and-effect sequences." (p. 80) |