Don’t Fool Yourself About the Exploding Pagers
Your phone is not a bomb.
Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the director of the film- and media-studies program at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also a computer-science and engineering professor. Bogost is the author of 10 books, most recently Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games. Bogost is also an award-winning game designer whose work has been played by millions of people and has been held in collections internationally, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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