The TED Interview: How to predict the future with Jane McGonigal
How to Be a Better Human
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What Makes Games a Game?
Games can be used to make machines more creative, collaborative and inflexible in their thinking. When you get lots of people playing the same game, then you have that phenomenon that game developers call emergence. That same kind of surprise emergence helps us understand the future better. And because it's a game, people feel free to be wild in their thinking, to be creative, to try different things, experiment. We're not necessarily locked into behaviour reasons for other reasons. If we want real change, we can change our behaviour very fast - which opens up the possibility that we could live an other way.
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