WARNING:When this talk begins, you will find yourself at ETech 2019.**and you will be asked to move seats
Jane McGonigal, PhDU.S. Secretary of Games
(former director of game research & development for the Institute for
the Future)
SURVIVAL, REINVENTED:SURVIVAL, REINVENTED:ETech 2019
Technologies for Technologies for SUPERSTRUCTING
March 12-15, 2019 March 12-15, 2019 Portland, Oregon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 Humans have 23 years to
go
GEAS World Run Supercomputer
CATASTROPHIC
SPECIES
COLLAPSE
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“Most GEAS WorldRun simulations show the human population going from 7 billion to 1.5 billion in the course of five years, once collapse sets in, then down to under 500 million in another ten years.”
“The best-case scenarios, assuming that we do nothing to alleviate the superthreats, leave about 20 million people alive, worldwide, by 2070, and under a million by 2100.”
Reinventing Survivability with
WORK THAT MATTERS
WORK THAT MATTERS:Which superthreat did you choose?
Now please arrange and reseat yourselves accordingly – in less
than 60 seconds.
It’s 2019, and you’re doing WORK THAT MATTERS.
What’s YOUR superthreat-fighting job title?
Jane McGonigal
U.S. Department of Games
SPEAKER
The thing is:
It’s not just the ETech community that wants to do work that matters.
We are desperately in need of ways to help the rest of the world do work that matters.
“We must collaborate or perish.”
- Wikinomics
Fortunately, we have the vast, global “social surplus”
to draw on.*
*(See Clay Shirky’s historic 2008 Web 2.0 talk “Gin, Television, and the Social Surplus”)
GAME DEVELOPERS nominated for a NOBEL
PRIZE by 2034
“Games are the most elevated form of investigation.” –Albert Einstein
(a hard-core gamer!!)
World Without Oil
How we learned from World Without Oil
1. We can imagine the ripples of potential events across massively multiple domains
How we learned from World Without Oil
2. Together, we can envision the “hard to see” (but theoretically possible) future
How we learned from World Without Oil
3. Playing a forecasting game forces us to “build calluses” for our own personal benefit
STILL LOOKS PROMISING!!!
but….
“We’re going to need a bigger game.”
it’s time for SUPERSTRUCTING.
to build on top of an existing foundation;
to strengthen by extending and developing above the
basic structure
superstructgame.org
OUR SECRET MISSION:
Create a league of
Super-Empowered
Hopeful Individuals
(SEHIs)**see Jamais Cascio at openthefuture.com
My Superstructure:
GAMEDEMIC!Game developers
+ CDC and other epidemiologists
+ cognitive scientists
=
Survival of the most gameful
“Going out in the 2019 Quarantine”
Dancing together = Happy
TOPSECRET.NING.COM
participation outputs in 6 weeks:
a community of >7500 SEHIs > 1000 stories about the superthreats > 500 active strategy forums > 550 collaborative superstructures
TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES TIM KRING: The most heroic
award goes to the members of Lifeliners: embedded tech-savvy humanitarians, who go to countries where the social safety net usually provided by governments has broken down and bootstrap high-tech solutions.
TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES
TARA HUNT: The most whuffie
award goes to the members of Educycle, which open sources education by helping anyone, anywhere “freecycle” what they know.
TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES
WARREN ELLIS: The Strangestruct
award goes to Insects4Food, designed to help solve the "peak protein" dilemma by mass manufacturing insect protein for food.
TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES
CHRIS DiBONA: The Pandora Award
goes to the members of The Society for Creative Breaking of Shit, designed to harness the talents of griefers and hackers for good.
early findings from 2019
ambient collaboration systems and “facilitators” are likely to become the most important IT and human resources to invest in
early findings from 2019
alternate currencies will help reverse scarcity & scaffold extreme-scale solutions
early findings from 2019
virtual worlds will broadcast real-time, real-world data to coordinate personal micro-contributions
early findings from 2019
“immune systems” become a driving metaphor for developing all kinds of resiliency and avoiding “the brittle”
early findings from 2019
“cradle to grave” is the new green and both producers and consumers are responsible for un-making and re-making everything
GET THE FULL REPORT
www.IFTF.orgThe next
Ten Year Forecastis revealed
April 20, 2009
Follow @IFTF on Twitter
SUPERSTRUCT PLAYER:
“This is my favorite vision of the future, because it’s the
first one I can actually imagine myself doing
something important in.” – Andrew F.
I believe that by gaming together,
we can start solving hard problems,
help re-invent society, give more people work
that matters, and improve our collective
survivability.
lab.signtific.org
WARNING:When this talk ends, you will find yourself back at Etech 2009.**and you will be asked to help invent the future
Jane McGonigal, PhD future U.S. Secretary of
Games?(current director of game research &
development for the Institute for the Future)
IFTF.ORG / follow me on Twitter: avantgame
