Wild Woila reviewed Playground by Richard Powers
Our tangled dependence on both extraction & love of the natural world
4 stars
The glorious wonder of the ocean, the fraught love of competitive friends, our tangled dependence on both extraction & love of the natural world, the tempting appeal of AI. Felt like there was too much to wrap up in so short a space, but he pulls it off remarkably, leaving an uncertainty as to what was real and what imagined or simulated.
