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Feb. 18, 2011
Could Gaming Be Good For You?
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| What if games could help solve, rather than exacerbate, real-world problems? Jane McGonigal, author of the new book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, thinks they can. She explains how games fulfill needs that reality doesn’t, and how to make real life more like a game. In SciArts: Check out portraits of gamers by photographer Phil Toledano. |
Produced by Katherine Wells
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Jane McGonigal
Director, Game Research and Development, Institute for the Future
Author, “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World” (Penguin, 2011)
San Francisco, CA
http://janemcgonigal.com/
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