Huizinga

For AI, motivation usually comes from “exploring new or unusual situations,” said Huizinga.

But if you flip Huizinga's idea on its head—play arising and unfolding in and as civilization—it turns out to be a blast.

In 1938, less than 20 years before the first videogames, the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga presented his theory of the world.

While this interior fulfilment was bringing Huizinga to his best, the world about him changed completely.

Huizinga's great success and reputation came suddenly when he was over forty.