Is There Going to Be Global Participation?

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i'm running simulations on how we're going to make decisions as a planet about jew engineering technology. What i try to help people simulate are disruptions or crises or threats they don't have enough information to imagine on their own. Having run through that in my head, then when i actually take the steps to do it, it'll be more effective. And essentially creating my own future, in a way, that's just more efficient cause i've thought about it, yes. Ah, i want people to start imagining this now, because if we wait ten years to start this conversation, there might not be enough time to act and two, it might be politicized like to day.

Shermer speaks with world-renowned future forecaster and game designer, Jane McGonigal, about her book Imaginable in which she draws on the latest scientific research in psychology and neuroscience to show us how to train our minds to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable by inviting us to play with provocative thought experiments and future simulations.

Shermer and McGonigal discuss: what a futurist is and what they do; counterfactuals: predicting the past; how could the present moment be different?; how can you imagine the unimaginable, or think the unthinkable?; how to envision what our lives will look like ten years from now; how to to solve problems creatively; how to make decisions that will help shape the future we desire; how to simulate any future you want; simulations as thought experiments as counterfactual causality tests; gaming as simulation of problem solving; the 10,000-hour rule for success; your present self vs. your future self and why most of us discount the future too much.