I enjoyed this review of Jesse Schell’s Dice Summit talk.
“The real world is thus connected to your actions in the imaginary game, Schell said. And it’s also interesting to note that much of our real lives are going to be monitored by sensors. That will happen through 3-D gesture control systems such as Microsoft’s Project ng this fall. And it will come through the embedding of sensors in all things digital, from cell phones to our walking shoes. Everything in our lives will be measurable.”
“If you take the bus to work, your local government will give you 10 achievement points for reducing traffic. You will get credit for walking to work, as your digital shoes will testify. If you kid gets straight A’s on a report card, he or she will get 2000 points. And the Obama administration will give you 5,000 points for being a good parent. These things are going to make Facebook games seem tiny and just the beginning of a giant wave of game-ification of the world.”
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