This game can actually encourage people to go exploring. They could find many interesting things about their town/city/neighborhood that way. Like a modern version of treasure hunting. If only they have a degree of awareness... For those people, how they use this game now, it might save their lives someday. Who knows.
But many chose to shut it all out instead, and trust the judgement of a machine.
It all happened before, just in a different form. People were already getting themselves injured because of GPS maps in a phone app. Not thinking when the app tells them to go "straight" or "turn left", then hitting a car or ending up in a lake, because "there was supposed to be a road there". If those people are so quick to put all their judgement away in favor of
some phone app without a mind or will of its own, is it really a surprise that the world is the way it is?
So, of course, if a new app that uses GPS appears, and it's a game this time, people will misuse it, abuse it, and get harmed by it. Then some will even sue the game creator's, because nobody told them they should pay attention!
And then, after several weeks, or months, people will forget about it all, and move on with a new hype. Because that's literally all they care about in their life.
Keit said:
What I wonder is how "older generations" deal with the increasing pressure? Or to be exact, what kind of distractions they use or are used against them in order to escape it?
The principle appears to be the same regardless of generation: they return to their childhood. It's the medium that changes (of course, children can't return to something that didn't end yet, so they will pick up whatever is around them at that time).
Just like it was described in Defying Hitler, when, the more the Nazis rose to power, the stronger the pressure on the society was, the higher the demand on books about "blissful and innocent childhood in the countryside" became (i think it's mentioned in one of the older SotT shows).
An example: i think you know the situation in Poland, that the conservative party took power. A big portion of their supporters (if not the majority), and their leaders, are people that lived most of their lives in a soviet Poland.
So, what is the conservative party's response to the increasing madness in the world? They take over the state TV broadcaster, and immediately all soviet-era TV series, plus the soviet-era rhetoric (but with new words and reversed enemies - then the US, now Russia) return. Younger generations stop watching it and the station's ratings have record lows, but the older generations are relieved, because they are back in "good old times", and the world is "finally back to normal".
The irony here is: the conservative party, and its supporters, constantly spew hate on communists and how evil the soviets were, but it doesn't prevent them from thinking about those times with nostalgia. But childhood is childhood.
Of course, i'm generalizing here to prove a point. :P It doesn't work this way for everyone, but the trend definitely exists.
