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In this delightfully readable book.... Geissinger suggests we take a step back from the virtual, breaking the spell of games, in order to lead a more balanced and happier life. --Dr. Julie M. Albright, digital sociologist, University of Southern California, and author, Left to Their Own Devices In this delightfully readable book, Eric Geissinger undertakes an exploration of the universal experience of play and its transformation within the digital era. His key insights around the erosion of play across generations, from unstructured imaginative play free of adult supervision to the hyper-structured, over-surveilled, very narrowly proscribed rules based gaming of today is instructive, in terms of the kinds of children and young adults it produces: What we may have gained in safety (or the illusion of it) we've lost in allowing children to engage the world in creative ways; reducing their freedom and challenges has undermined their development of resiliency, leaving a generation of young people stressed and woefully underprepared to navigate an increasingly complex world on their own. Geissinger suggests we take a step back from the virtual, breaking the spell of games, in order to lead a more balanced and happier life. --Dr. Julie M. Albright, digital sociologist, University of Southern California, and author, Left to Their Own Devices

In this delightfully readable book, Eric Geissinger undertakes an exploration of the universal experience of play and its transformation within the digital era. His key insights around the erosion of play across generations, from unstructured imaginative play free of adult supervision to the hyper-structured, over-surveilled, very narrowly proscribed rules based gaming of today is instructive, in terms of the kinds of children and young adults it produces: What we may have gained in safety (or the illusion of it) we've lost in allowing children to engage the world in creative ways; reducing their freedom and challenges has undermined their development of resiliency, leaving a generation of young people stressed and woefully underprepared to navigate an increasingly complex world on their own. Geissinger suggests we take a step back from the virtual, breaking the spell of games, in order to lead a more balanced and happier life. --Dr. Julie M. Albright, digital sociologist, University of Southern California, and author, Left to Their Own Devices

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Eric Geissinger is the author of Virtual Billions- The Genius, the Drug Lord, and the Ivy League Twins behind the Rise of Bitcoin. He has worked as a technical writer for Silicon Valley software companies for seventeen years. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in several literary journals. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York with his wife and two daughters.

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