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This game designer predicted COVID 10 years ago. Here’s what’s coming next

This game designer predicted COVID 10 years ago. Here’s what’s coming next

This game designer predicted COVID 10 years ago. Here’s what’s coming next

June 9, 2022

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Summary

Back in 2010 This mission to take our interest in gaming and collective imagining exercises and use them to help us better understand possible future outcomes-you and your team have been engaged in this for a while, and you have an astoundingly impressive track record at anticipating possible future outcomes.

Can you share some of the details of what you all have done? 2020 was a really strange year to be a future forecaster, in that I had an experience of living through a very difficult future that we had been forecasting for a decade or more.

My work at the Institute for the Future involved creating these social simulations way back in 2008, 2010, where we were inviting thousands of people to spend weeks in a private social network.

Futurists love to look 10 years ahead because that gives us enough mental distance to think creatively.

My goal is to have 20 million-I think that would really help us prepare for the future.

Why You Should Think 10 Years Into The Future: McGonigal: When we give ourselves these long, luxurious deadlines, we feel time rich.

Another thing that researchers have found is that when we imagine 10 years out, we tend to think about things that are more relevant to our most important values-the kinds of goals that would help us live a life that we would consider really authentic, really true to our dreams or what we find meaningful and purposeful.

Reference

This game designer predicted COVID 10 years ago. here's what's coming next. (2022, June 09). Retrieved June 15, 2022, from https://www.fastcompany.com/90759456/this-game-designer-predicted-covid-10-years-ago-heres-whats-coming-next