Jane mcgonigal has been creating alternate reality games that challenge players to tackle real world problems like poverty and hunger. In one of those games, years ago, before covid people took part in a simulated world wide pandemic. She tracked them, recorded them, quantified them, and they did exactly what we did over the last few years. It matched even the politics and polarization of wearing masks,. The spread of misinformation, the places where superspreadf events would take place... Even cuanon, which emerged as something called citizen x. After the break, you will learn all about how she made these games and how it led to her new book titled imaginable.

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