Episode 145 – You Are Being Gamed
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Description:Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we open up the virtual Skinner box and peer into the future of gaming in the world of ubiquitous computing. When our daily life consists of interactions with computers, will there be any way to avoid amusing ourselves to death?
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| Documentation – Republic Broadcasting archives | |
| Time Reference: | 01:58 |
| Description: | Subscribe to the Republic Broadcasting archives to hear James Corbett’s appearance on ‘In the Zone’ with Lt. Eric Shine on 9/11/2010. |
| Link To: | RepublicBroadcasting |
| Documentation – Sunday Update | |
| Time Reference: | 03:21 |
| Description: | Coming shortly… |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
| Documentation – The Game | |
| Time Reference: | 16:47 |
| Description: | Description of Episode 2×06 of Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Link To: | StarTrek.com |
| Documentation – 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted | |
| Time Reference: | 19:30 |
| Description: | Surprisingly informative article from Cracked. |
| Link To: | Cracked.com |
| Documentation – Skinner Box | |
| Time Reference: | 24:31 |
| Description: | A short documentary extract explaining B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning experiment commonly known as the Skinner box. |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
| Documentation – Behavioral game design | |
| Time Reference: | 31:00 |
| Description: | A Microsoft game engineer explains how to make players play a game forever (and uses helpful pictures of rats in Skinner boxes to illustrate his points). |
| Link To: | Gamasutra |
| Documentation – Most Disturbing Presentation Ever. | |
| Time Reference: | 35:21 |
| Description: | For once, the video might live up to the hype. Anyone who is not disturbed by the nightmare future Schell outlines in this presentation is probably drinking the Kool-Aid as hard as he is. |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
| Documentation – Neil Postman homepage | |
| Time Reference: | 49:20 |
| Description: | An online home page of links, some (appropriately enough) outdated and broken, on the author and critic Neil Postman. |
| Link To: | NeilPostman.org |
| Documentation – Technology and Society by Neil Postman | |
| Time Reference: | 50:34 |
| Description: | A lecture delivered in 1998 by Neil Postman on the potential problems of advancing technology. The excerpt from today’s episode is from part 3. |
| Link To: | YouTube.com |
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