Bo Bernhard, native Las Vegan and sociology professor at the University of Nevada, has described the effects of machine gambling’s spread as a kind of technological “deforestation” of table games. “Right now,” he told an audience at the Int…In a historical moment when transactions between humans and machines unfold “at an ever greater level of intimacy and on an ever greater scale” (as the sociologist Bruno Latour has written), computers, video games, mobile phones, iPods, and…
Bo Bernhard
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Bo Bernhard is a sociologist at the University of Nevada who studies gambling technologies and their social impacts. His concept of machine gambling as technological "deforestation"—the displacement of human-centered gaming practices by algorithmic systems—helps the course frame how automation reshapes not just labor but leisure, intimacy, and the texture of social life. He's cited here to ground discussions of human-machine relations in the material history of gambling systems, showing how cybernetic mediation operates across domains from Las Vegas casinos to everyday consumer technologies.
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