The Craft of Forecasting Our Possible Futures: A Conversation with Jane McGonigal

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Defining one or more big goals for your own simulation can help set participant expectations and build excitement. People will want to know: Why are we doing this? What will I get out of it? How am I helping a bigger cause by participating? Here are some of the reasons I’ve decided to run a large-scale social simulation: To take a possible future c

What will people want and need in this future? What kinds of people will be particularly useful in this future? How will you use your unique strengths to help others in this future?

Which world will you wake up in first? “The Road to Zerophoria”: Wake up in a world where a public service you take for granted disappears virtually overnight. Get ready to rethink every aspect of your daily life. “Welcome Party”: Wake up in a world that is working together to move one billion people across borders. Get ready to pick your new desti

The world is jam-packed with trustworthy experts whose full-time job is to study, analyze, and warn others of future risks and disruptions: climate scientists, epidemiologists, technology ethicists, investigative reporters, human rights activists, national security researchers, economic forecasters.