How far should we believe the benefical claims made for the augmented reality game?
A s with the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, in which one encounters something new and then cannot escape it, Pokémon Go has seemingly come from nowhere and is now everywhere.
Pokémon No. I’ve felt great cynicism towards adults clutching phones and waving their arms about outside disused public lavatories or my garden. It used to be that going round the houses looking for something was just shorthand for when you lose your glasses, not an actual way to spend an evening.
It is cool to point your camera at a space and see something pop up on the screen that isn’t there
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Source: I don’t want to be a wet blanket about Pokémon Go … | Hannah Jane Parkinson
