'Playground' follows four lives - a marine biologist, an artist, a schoolteacher, and an AI …
He called himself a Democratic Communist, with adamant but respectful disdain for the opiate of the masses. That atheism freed up his Sunday mornings and added four more hours to his usable time, leaving him, by his own estimates, almost nine percent more productive every week than if he had been saddled with belief.
— Playground by Richard Powers