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Ian Bogost discussed Play Anything on NPR’s Science Friday“‘Gamification’ is a popular buzzword that describes the process of making boring or difficult things fun. Need to train for that marathon? Download an app and turn your workout into a zombie chase. Have a ton of chores? Use your smartphone to turn your to-do list into an adventure quest. Gamification apps suggest you can have the best of both worlds: You can play games and be productive. In other words, they promise to make life more fun.”
“Mr. Kitfield, a veteran national-security reporter whose earlier book, ‘Prodigal Soldiers’ (1997), deflt narrated the U.S. military’s revitalization after Vietnam, here provides an enlightening tour of 21st-century counterterrorism—its successes and failures, its evolving technologies, and its ever-festering rivalries among national-security agencies.”
“In the appropriately titled Caliphate: The History of an Idea, British historian Hugh Kennedy takes it upon himself to recover the caliphate’s meaning, and he succeeds with welcome doses of erudition, accuracy and, when necessary, empathy.”
