Do games help us form social bonds and build important life skills, or are they just a pleasant way to escape the daily grind? Worse yet, could playing games make us lazy and antisocial? These are some of the questions we’re asking in this week’s show, What’s in a Game?
Video game use among young, lower skilled men has increased markedly in the past few decades. In general, the underemployment of this demographic has struck many as deeply worrying, foreshadowing changes in the future of work and creating a need for a universal basic income.
你可能认为这是不可能的，但现在有一个由亨利·大卫·梭罗(Henry David Thoreau)设计的《瓦尔登湖》的电脑游戏版本，旨在帮助培养一种哲学体验，并学会“刻意地生活”。这本书恰好在梭罗诞辰200周年之际发行。