Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Mar 17, 2010
http://www.ted.com Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
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but.. what if its an epic fail instead? :(
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I'm a Kitchen and i find this girl offensive.
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2:27 this video is an EPIC WIN
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hoped she would show tits....
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That's me on the picture. (Really no jokes here)
I made the account just to comment :D
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congratulations, you're making blizzard more money with your crazy ideas
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WoW = "meaningful work"!?!?!?! lol
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@Vwong114 stop trying
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I learned english in onlinegames, fuck school :3
KiinqBaLu 4 days ago 118
Back to 9GAG :3
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