Design Intersections: How Games Can Help Us Solve the World's Biggest Problems
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This document discusses the potential for games to motivate positive real-world change and coordination. It describes a game called World Without Oil that engaged over 7,000 forecasters from around the world to envision solutions for a future without oil. Players posted over 2,000 posts in the first 24 hours, and over 10,500 students from more than 120 countries enrolled in the first 15 days, including more than 2,000 from Africa. The game helped shift players' mindsets about the problems and potential solutions in Africa. It showed that games can motivate and coordinate real change by connecting individuals to important challenges.
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- Extreme interest: steady focus of eyes, head forward; flared nostrils means seeking more oxygen, which means excitement; eyebrows high indicate surprise and expectation, lips pushed together indicate a kind of steeling for a big moment, a massive effort
- It’s not an illusion that we’re better at games than life…. We’ve accumulated 10,000 hours of practice at it.
- More urgent optimism. More curiosity about our own capabilities. More awe and wonder. Better at coordinating efforts. Better at stickign with difficult challenges.
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- Received nobel prize for physics in 1921
- 1. Common ground 2. Shared attention
- 3. Multiple points of view 4. Freedom to play and experiment
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