How Teenagers Are Rediscovering An Old Game About Authoritarianism

‘Papers, Please’ came out in 2013, but middle-schoolers are still stumbling upon its grim, fascinating lessons

Clive Thompson
OneZero
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6 min readAug 18, 2021

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I remember back in the ’80s, when a high-school friend suggested I read George Orwell’s 1984.

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Clive Thompson
OneZero

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net