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Augmented reality and its missing ethics
In the quest to “catch ’em all,” virtual goals have superseded social actual rules in some gamers’ minds, and people aren’t happy.
Places of mourning and reflection, like cemeteries or the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, have pleaded for players to stop catching digital creatures on their premises.
“As is increasingly becoming the norm with digital technologies, both the labour and responsibility have fallen onto the end user. … Pokémon Go is just some markers on a map. The politics is someone else’s problem,” Australian journalist Brendan Keogh wrote in Overland Magazine.
We can fix that politics problem, but we have to create a standard for responsibility.
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