reinventing survival: a keynote from etech 2019

WARNING:When this talk begins, you will find yourself at ETech 2019.**and you will be asked to move seats

Jane McGonigal, PhDU.S. Secretary of Games(former director of game research &

development for the Institute for the Future)

SURVIVAL, REINVENTED:SURVIVAL, REINVENTED:ETech 2019

Technologies for Technologies for SUPERSTRUCTING

March 12-15, 2019 March 12-15, 2019 Portland, Oregon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 Humans have 23 years to

go

GEAS World Run Supercomputer

CATASTROPHIC

SPECIES

COLLAPSE

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Breaking news

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• Bangalore software studio Indus River now offering "Diasporas" training simulation, based on Indian experience integrating Bangladeshi refugees.

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“Most GEAS WorldRun simulations show the human population going from 7 billion to 1.5 billion in the course of five years, once collapse sets in, then down to under 500 million in another ten years.”

“The best-case scenarios, assuming that we do nothing to alleviate the superthreats, leave about 20 million people alive, worldwide, by 2070, and under a million by 2100.”

Reinventing Survivability with

WORK THAT MATTERS

WORK THAT MATTERS:Which superthreat did you choose?

Now please arrange and reseat yourselves accordingly – in less than

60 seconds.

It’s 2019, and you’re doing WORK THAT MATTERS.

What’s YOUR superthreat-fighting job title?

Jane McGonigal

U.S. Department of Games

SPEAKER

The thing is:

It’s not just the ETech community that wants to do work that matters.

We are desperately in need of ways to help the rest of the

world do work that matters.

“We must collaborate or perish.”

- Wikinomics

Fortunately, we have the vast, global “social surplus”

to draw on.*

*(See Clay Shirky’s historic 2008 Web 2.0 talk “Gin, Television, and the Social Surplus”)

GAME DEVELOPERS nominated for a NOBEL

PRIZE by 2034

“Games are the most elevated form of investigation.” –Albert Einstein

(a hard-core gamer!!)

World Without Oil

How we learned from World Without Oil

1. We can imagine the ripples of potential events across massively multiple domains

How we learned from World Without Oil

2. Together, we can envision the “hard to see” (but theoretically possible) future

How we learned from World Without Oil

3. Playing a forecasting game forces us to “build calluses” for our own personal benefit

STILL LOOKS PROMISING!!

!

but….

“We’re going to need a bigger game.”

it’s time for SUPERSTRUCTING.

to build on top of an existing foundation;

to strengthen by extending and developing above the basic

structure

superstructgame.org

OUR SECRET

MISSION:

Create a league of

Super-Empowered Hopeful

Individuals (SEHIs)**see Jamais Cascio at openthefuture.com

My Superstructure:

GAMEDEMIC!Game developers

+ CDC and other epidemiologists

+ cognitive scientists

=

Survival of the most gameful

“Going out in the 2019 Quarantine”

Dancing together = Happy

participation outputs in 6 weeks:

a community of >7500 SEHIs > 1000 stories about the superthreats > 500 active strategy forums > 550 collaborative superstructures

TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES

TIM KRING: The most heroic

award goes to the members of Lifeliners: embedded tech-savvy humanitarians, who go to countries where the social safety net usually provided by governments has broken down and bootstrap high-tech solutions.

TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES

TARA HUNT: The most whuffie

award goes to the members of Educycle, which open sources education by helping anyone, anywhere “freecycle” what they know.

TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES

WARREN ELLIS: The Strangestruct

award goes to Insects4Food, designed to help solve the "peak protein" dilemma by mass manufacturing insect protein for food.

TOP SUPERSTRUCTURES

CHRIS DiBONA: The Pandora Award

goes to the members of The Society for Creative Breaking of Shit, designed to harness the talents of griefers and hackers for good.

early findings from 2019

ambient collaboration systems and “facilitators” are likely to become the most important IT and human resources to invest in

early findings from 2019

alternate currencies will help reverse scarcity & scaffold extreme-scale solutions

early findings from 2019

virtual worlds will broadcast real-time, real-world data to coordinate personal micro-contributions

early findings from 2019

“immune systems” become a driving metaphor for developing all kinds of resiliency and avoiding “the brittle”

early findings from 2019

“cradle to grave” is the new green and both producers and consumers are responsible for un-making and re-making everything

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www.IFTF.orgThe next

Ten Year Forecastis revealed

April 20, 2009

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SUPERSTRUCT PLAYER:

“This is my favorite vision of the future, because it’s the first one I can actually

imagine myself doing something important in.” –

Andrew F.

I believe that by gaming together,

we can start solving hard problems,

help re-invent society, give more people work that

matters, and improve our collective

survivability.

lab.signtific.org

WARNING:When this talk ends, you will find yourself back at Etech 2009.**and you will be asked to help invent the future

Jane McGonigal, PhD future U.S. Secretary of

Games?(current director of game research &

development for the Institute for the Future)

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