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Games as a platform for city-scale collaboration
The document discusses how games can be utilized as a platform for city-scale collaboration and problem-solving, emphasizing the potential of harnessing the skills and optimism of gamers. It highlights the success of the 'World Without Oil' game in motivating real-world change and fostering a mindset shift towards long-term thinking. Additionally, it encourages active participation from various sectors, including education and community organizations, to enhance the impact of gaming in addressing urgent societal issues.
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- 2. In California, wespend 72 million hours a week playing computer and videogames.
- 3. What if YOU could tap into that human resource to solve your city’s most urgent problems?
- 4. “ We must collaborate –or perish .” - Wikinomics
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- 6. Epic Win gamesas a platform for city-scale collaboration Jane McGonigal, PhD Director of Games Research & Development Institute for the Future
- 7. Game developer nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by 2020
- 8. “ Games are the most elevated form of investigation.”
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- 16. How games helpus collaborate Satisfying work Real hope of success A strong social fabric The chance to become a part of something bigger
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- 23. What if wecould harness some of those collaboration superpowers and optimism to real-world knowledge building and problem solving ?
- 24. Will Wright +Jill Tarter
- 25. “ I’m interestedin the possibility that learning to be good at a game makes you good at life, makes you good at changing the world , and gives you skills that are going to allow you to reinvent your environment. ”
- 26. “ There’s realvalue in being pushed toward global awareness and looking long-term . That’s one of the things that I find very useful about big games…. these are the timelines we need to be looking at — the 10-, 50-, 100- year horizons . Because most of the really bad stuff that’s happening right now is the result of very short-term thinking.”
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- 31. “ My friends,my family – they’ve all noticed the difference. This game has honestly changed my life.” -- Melissa, WWO player
- 32. What we learnedWe can motivate and coordinate real change
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- 41. > 1000 stories about the future > 500 discussion forum topics > 500 collaborative superstructures
- 42. “ This isby far my favorite vision of the future , because it’s the first one I can actually imagine myself doing something important in.” – Andrew F.
- 43. What we learnedWe can provoke urgent optimism
- 44. Now please arrangeand reseat yourselves accordingly – in less than 60 seconds.
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- 47. “ We neversaw this in our students before: a new mindset of Africans being the solution providers as opposed to the solution seekers.” - Thirumeni Thiru , EVOKE outreach
- 48. What we’re learningWe can change who plays
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- 50. Get help makinga game: Colleges and universities Libraries Museums IGDA chapters
- 51. Use free onlineplatforms Ning for social networking Twitter for updates Wordpress for blogs Wikia for wikis Facebook for promotion
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Editor's Notes
- #3 342,000 years a week. Or 50,000 years a day. 50,000 years ago Neanderthal man walked the earth. That’s plenty of time to invent the future.
- #4 342,000 years a week. Or 50,000 years a day. 50,000 years ago Neanderthal man walked the earth. That’s plenty of time to invent the future.
- #5 Good news — across borders, cultures, disciplines, and firms, and increasingly with masses of people at one time. Fortunately, we have the vast, global “social surplus” to draw on.*
- #6 So let’s talk about the future, and what our relationship to it is. This is a sign in our Palo Alto offices. It sums up our approach to the future.
- #7 Theme for my comments are “epic win” – a gamer term for the best possible outcome, and being the Director of games R & D at IFTF I’m interested in trying to imagine epic wins for humanity over the next decade, what are the best possible scenarios for our future, and how can we make them happen. So when I think about a public forum, maybe perhaps as opposed to the idea of a space for rational discussion and debate, I think of it as a space for exuberant discussion and debate, a space for optimistic goal-setting and social imagination.
- #9 Received nobel prize for physics in 1921
- #10 1. Common ground 2. Shared attention
- #11 3. Multiple points of view 4. Freedom to play and experiment
- #19 Bad news
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- #55 Your turn! Awe-inspiring questions and problems Concrete challenges Competitive collaboration Global & social, in fun, fierce bursts Everyone has the opportunity to become a Super Empowered Hopeful Individual. Games are a powerful tool for inventing a better future, and saving the real world.