1. Gaming: Epic Win
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Gaming: Epic Win

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Gamers spend countless
hours playing in “blissful
productivity”. If games
could be used to solve
real world problems,
games become a
priceless resource.

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Many gamers feel like they are better at games
than life.

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• Gamers have adopted these characteristics from time spent
playing.

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• Gamers play to escape real life suffering, to escape everything that is not
satisfying in real life. If real life problems were introduced as games,
gamers become resources that could very well help make the world a
better place.

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• “One of the most profound transformations we can learn from games, is
how to turn the sense that someone has ‘failed’ into the sense that they
‘haven’t succeeded yet.’”
• Gamers are super empowered hopeful individuals (they always have hope
of success).

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• Schools are starting to borrow gamers’ system of quests and rewards,
these principles could be applied to lots of enterprises, especially colossal
collaborations online.

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• Gamers on Foldit, a crowdsourced, online protein folding simulator from the
University of Washington managed to solve a longstanding problem in AIDS
research that vexed scientists for more than ten years and managed it in ten
days.

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Sources:
• http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a
_better_world.html
• http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/aids-puzzle-solved-by-
computer-gamers.php
• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/science/07tierney.html?pagewante
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