As a society, we can invent ways to create as many good possibilities as possible. Good possibilities are those that generate more good possibilities. Repeating this is the paradoxical aspect of the infinite game. The best “open-ended” choice is the one that increases the number of subsequent “open-ended” choices the most. This recursive structure is the infinite game of technology.


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