Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
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China's Experiments With Gamified Social Credit Scores
China is experimenting with gamified social credit systems that aim to control citizens behavior through rewards and punishments. In some cities in China security cameras will check whether you're jaywalking or if you've returned a book late to the library. Most of them are not doing it in a very systematic manner, says author David Frum.
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