machine zone
English
editEtymology
editCoined by cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll.
Noun
editmachine zone (usually uncountable, plural machine zones)
- A trance-like state of immersion reached through intense interaction with gambling machines.
- 2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, page 3:
- Echoing Mollie’s wish to stay in the machine zone, they spoke of gamblers’ desire for “time-on-device,” or TOD.
- 2015, Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin, →ISBN:
- How does technology hold us close, so close that we turn to it instead of turning within? It keeps us in a “machine zone.”