The Acagamic

Jeff Brenman’s talk about the future of work is a very inspir­ing and great pre­sen­ta­tion (he works at a pre­sen­ta­tion con­sult­ing firm) that might come off as a lit­tle bit off topic here, but sub­stan­tially most of the chang­ing cir­cum­stances of our work­ing lives men­tioned in his talk are due to the peo­ple grow­ing up with games. I am [...]

She says: “Let’s make the future!” Jane McGonigal is a pro­lific alternate-reality-games designer and leads game research and devel­op­ment at the insti­tute for the future. Occasionally, she also gives really cool pre­sen­ta­tions with stim­u­lat­ing ideas in them. Nobel prizes for game devel­op­ers? Sure thing. And again, we are talk­ing about using the power of games for [...]