The Future of Gaming

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Dame legonigal, welcomed o the minescape podcast. I've been wanting to have you on the podcast for a long time to talk about games and gaming. But i still want to start with the games, if that's who e makes. So why don't you give your sales picture or explanation for how important gaming is to the modern world? Sure. Well, my research background is studying the psychological impacts of playing video games. And when i was doing her pch d, i became kind of obsessed with with the sense that gamers were developing skills and abilities that might have some transferable benefit to our real were ald problems. It just seem like such a great skills

The future grows out of the present, but it manages to consistently surprise us. How can we get better at anticipating and preparing for what the future can be like? Jane McGonigal started out as a game designer, working on the kinds of games that represent miniature worlds with their own rules. This paradigm provides a useful way of thinking about predicting the future: imagining changes in the current world, then gaming out the consequence, allowing real people to produce unexpected emergent outcomes. We talk about the lessons learned that anyone can use to better prepare their brain for the future to come.

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Jane McGonigal received her Ph.D. in performance studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a writer and Director of Games Research and Development at the Institute for the Future. She teaches a course at Stanford on How to Think Like a Futurist. She has developed several games, including SuperBetter, a game she designed to improve health and resilience after suffering from a concussion. Her recent book is Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything–Even Things That Seem Impossible Today.

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