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 studying the social impacts of gambling technology and automation in leisure economies. His concept of technological "deforestation" frames machine gambling as an ecological-scale displacement of human social practices, allowing the course readings to theorize how computational systems don't simply augment but fundamentally replace older forms of human-machine interaction and community gathering. This positions him within a broader conversation about technology's restructuring of social space that complements Latour's argument about escalating human-machine intimacy.
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