Nicolas Ward’s Reviews > Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World > Status Update

"Life is hard, and games make it better."

Funny how many of these futurists are into blockchain nonsense now

"We are all born with the potential to develop collaboration superpowers"

I'm surprised I missed this Lost Ring ARG. Guess I was too busy watching the Olympics and playing WoW cooperatively?

Reading about shared intentionality has me thinking about people who seem to actively work against collaboration and shared interest politically.

I wonder how this kind of crowdsourced volunteering would fit into more current mutual aid models?

Thinking a lot about the bread and circuses angle of this... and wondering if some of the current conspiracy theory culture is driven by idle time combined with reality disillusionment, and unmooring of cultural and relational touchstones?

A lot of these community-in-reality games basically only work in cities, and that's an interesting limitation.

I wonder a lot what the first major gaming generation (I suppose mostly Gen X on Atari) will be like in retirement, compared to Boomers before them.

I got a lot of good Foursquare freebies back in the day. Still on Swarm. You can tell McGonigal is very tied into SXSW crowd at this time.