How to predict the future with Jane McGonigal
The TED Interview
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What Makes Games a Game?
Games are a powerful conceptual tool. Because it's a game people feel free to be wild in their thinking, to be creative, to try different things, experiment. And that's important too, if we're trying o to surprise ourselves with ideas that we would otherwise not be able to predict. Every player will bring their own ideas about what is possible, different strategies, different reactions. When you can get lots of people playing the same game, then you have that phenomenon that game developers call emergence. That's why it's portant to have thousands of people playing right, not just for me to sit around a table with other expertss so that we can get that emergence of fact.
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