We might think of games as trivial fun, but they are deeply intertwined with human history — and will prove profound important to our future.
Kelly Clancy is both a neuroscientist and a physicist, and has held positions at MIT and DeepMind. She’s also the author of Playing With Reality, a new intellectual history of games that explores the influence that games have played – if you’ll forgive the pun – over many centuries on warfare, gambling, economics and much more. If you’ve ever wanted to know why chess is used as a stand-in for intelligence or what game theory really is, this episode of the podcast is for you.
