How to Be a Better Human — The TED Interview: How to predict the future with Jane McGonigal

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The TED Interview: How to predict the future with Jane McGonigal

How to Be a Better Human

Future forecaster and game designer Jane McGonigal ran a social simulation game in 2008 that had players dealing with the effects of a respiratory pandemic set to happen in the next decade. She wasn’t literally predicting the 2020 pandemic—but she got eerily close. Her game, set in 2019, featured scenarios we're now…

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