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February 3, 2017

Games without frontiers? The Founder is a start-up simulator game, developed by Silicon Valley techie Francis Tseng, that highlights the dark side of Silicon Valley tech industries.  With players building their own start-up ventures, the game draws attention to the powerful effects of technology, whose development, says Tseng, often ignores social responsibility and impacts.  As author Katharine Schwab points out, “When the system demands that companies continually grow the bottom line, how do the people driving the tech industry keep up in an ethical way?”  Such is the case with The Founder, where the only way to win the game is to keep churning up profit and global domination — or, according to Tseng, “not play.”  Schwab’s article is available here.

Article courtesy of LSI Community Board member Gregory Wilmoth.