What is game theory? There was nothing theoretical about the endless summers of childhood. We’d spend forever having adventures, building bonds and memories, playing games, and… And creating games that have never existed before. Completely new ones, with rules defined and refined through playing and building upon the game itself, rules developed and agreed upon by the circle of game inventors. We cared about playing fair and reciprocity. This, too, falls under the game theory umbrella.

What is the first thing you do when you wake up (after half-squinting with sticky led eyelids, raising your fists to the sky, cursing the alarm, and bargaining with the universe for a few more minutes)? Well, there is a good chance you will immediately go on social media and check your email or WhatsApp. How strange a world it was in which www. yet had to lay its web all over the blue dot.