"machine zone" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, page 3:",
          "text": "Echoing Mollie’s wish to stay in the machine zone, they spoke of gamblers’ desire for “time-on-device,” or TOD.",
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          "ref": "2015, Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "How does technology hold us close, so close that we turn to it instead of turning within? It keeps us in a “machine zone.”",
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          "ref": "2020, Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 64:",
          "text": "As one addict explains, she is not playing to win but to ‘stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters.’",
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        "A trance-like state of immersion reached through intense interaction with gambling machines."
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