I'll leave you with this, just think about it. Book Review: Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Change the World By: Amy Gonzalez Date: SeptemSummary: Game designer and Director of Game Research at the Institute For The Future, Jane McGonigal, argues that games can change the world for the better. By the end of the book, she even talks about a thousand-year game. Jane McGonigal shifted my perspective and deeply extended my horizon in terms of what's possible to achieve through a game. With the right design, games have an incredible potential to create democratic work structures, even national or global organizational structures that can radically reinvet the way we co-exist and lead. Games have the power to bring together hundreds of thousands, even millions of people and that exceeds by far what a single organization is capable of achieving. For example, gamers contributed to protein folding without being biologists or doctors. If you design a game for a real-world problem and you design it well, players don't need to be specialised in those areas in order to solve it. Game design is applicable in multiple domains: from medicine to energy saving, from civic involment to reinventing the way our world works. Games can harness the collective wisdom coming from many different areas of knowledge in a fast and effective way.
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