Adrian Hon on the Gamified Life

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Points, badges, progress bars and leaderboards: they’re among the games designed to make dull activities fun -- and to make us more productive at the gym, in school or at work. But to video game developer Adrian Hon, gamification has become the twenty-first century’s most advanced form of behavioral control, coercing our decisions and justifying corporate and government surveillance. We’ll talk to Hon about his new book “You’ve Been Played.” Guests: Adrian Hon, game developer and author, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments and Schools Use Games to Control Us All." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.5	Game elements can be found all over modern life, the ability to rack up points, earn badges,
1:35.3	see your name at the top of a leaderboard.
1:37.3	They're supposed to make things that are hard or tedious, like exercising or even our jobs,
1:43.3	more fun and light-hearted.
1:45.0	But Adrian Hahn has grown increasingly uncomfortable with the way our lives have become
1:50.0	gamified, and he's a game developer.
1:53.0	We'll talk with Han about why he sees gamification as this century's most advanced form of behavior control.
1:58.0	And we want to hear from you. Do you use games to be more productive?
2:02.0	Or do they use you?
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