By Rizwan Virk, founder of Play Labs @ MIT

When I was a kid, I remember watching the now famous Apple-IBM commercial at the Super Bowl that claimed to show why the year 1984 wasn’t going to be anything like the novel “1984.” In the ad, Apple presented itself and the Macintosh computer it was debuting to compete with IBM’s ubiquitous PCs as the revolutionary going up against “Big Brother,” the behemoth bureaucracy that crushed souls and innovation.