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Game Friday: Games that Make You a Better Person (Really!)

Museum 2.0

They're not expensive for the manufacturers to put in—10 to 20 bucks—and it would save more fuel than all the laws passed in the last 25 years. In broad strokes, the fcd is just an gaming extension of life logging--passive data collection about all kinds of aspects of life. All from a simple display." This game matters.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

And my Mom says she’ll never forget that her first knowledge of the events of the day came through my voice, whole and well, telling her to turn on the television. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. Tell them where you are.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. 16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g., to automate fast-food restaurants).

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