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From the Ted Talk by Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games
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But behind the scenes in an olnnie game, this is what it looks like. To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful etniiets or objects. You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite wlrod." Well it's more that you've played on a taidermll. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the ruovtioeln that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.
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But behind the scenes in an ______ game, this is what it looks like. To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful ________ or objects. You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite _____." Well it's more that you've played on a _________. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the __________ that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.
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- online
- world
- treadmill
- revolution
- entities
Original Text
But behind the scenes in an online game, this is what it looks like. To a computer scientist, all you see is just a little bit of information being exchanged by a tiny handful of meaningful entities or objects. You might be thinking, "I've played in an infinite world." Well it's more that you've played on a treadmill. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the revolution that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.
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