Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 10:24:54 PDT
From: RISKS Forum <risks@csl.sri.com>
Subject: RISKS DIGEST 16.23

RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest  Weds 13 July 1994  Volume 16 : Issue 23

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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 16:25:35 -0700
From: Phil Agre <pagre@ucsd.edu>
Subject: SimCity

The spring issue of the liberal journal "The American Prospect" includes a
detailed critique of policy simulation programs such as SimCity.  The full
reference is:

  Paul Starr, Seductions of Sim: Policy as a simulation game, The American
  Prospect 17, Spring 1994, pages 19-29.

The gist is that the real politics of policy and its implementation are much
more complicated than the basic framework of such simulations can possibly
accommodate.

Phil Agre, UCSD

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