Here is a book that explores the discontents of computer simulations, and how the technology has impacted fields such as science and architecture. I read this book with the intent of getting a different perspective from what Schrage presented in Serious Play. The book consists of essays by Turkle and other contributors; although, it is Turkle's essay that I found most compelling. Simulations can become - in the spirit of the Tyrell Corporation - more real than real. What happens when your simulations start edging out the real? Where no reference points exist in the real world for you to check for their correctness? When one observes a simulation and feels he or she now knows how something actually works? What are the implications? It's easy to be seduced by a beautiful visual simulation, regard it as 'real', when beneath it lies layers upon layers of abstract code. It makes one ponder.

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