Link to the Show / Show NotesComplete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Tiffany_Shlain_and_Jane_McGonigal
Game designer Jane McGonigal and filmmaker Tiffany Schlain discuss how video games make people better, and can help change the world. McGonigal describes the "epic win," a special skill gamers develop to help them solve difficult problems and how that skill can be used as an amazing human resource in the physical world.
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Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over 6 hours in San Francisco on Saturday October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.
Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer. - The Long Now Foundation
Jane McGonigal is the Director of Games Research and Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. She has created and deployed games and missions in more than 30 countries on six continents. She specializes in games that help gamers enjoy their real lives more -- and games that challenge players to tackle real-world problems, through planetary-scale collaboration.
Honored as one of Newsweek's "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is the founder and ambassador of The Webby Awards and an award-winning filmmaker. Tiffany's career is guided by a passion for unraveling complex ideas in unorthodox ways. Her work covers an array of topics, from the internet to politics to religion. She has directed eight films including "Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happiness," a Sundance Film Festival selection 2003 and broadcast on TV on The Sundance Channel.
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