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Jane M c Gonigal, PhD U.S. Secretary of Games

WARNING: When this talk begins, you will find yourself at ETech 2019 .* *and you will be asked to move seats. Jane M c Gonigal, PhD U.S. Secretary of Games (former director of game research & development for the Institute for the Future ). SURVIVAL, REINVENTED: ETech 2019

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Jane M c Gonigal, PhD U.S. Secretary of Games

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  1. WARNING:When this talk begins, you will find yourself at ETech2019.**and you will be asked to move seats Jane McGonigal, PhD U.S. Secretary of Games (former director of game research & development for the Institute for the Future)

  2. SURVIVAL, REINVENTED: ETech 2019 Technologies for SUPERSTRUCTING March 12-15, 2019 Portland, Oregon

  3. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 Humans have 23 years to go

  4. GEAS World Run Supercomputer

  5. CATASTROPHIC SPECIES COLLAPSE

  6. Breaking news • Solar is Civil Defense: Solar Power advocates offer demonstrations, advice • Survey shows that governments, corporations not trusted as energy information  resources: May make public more susceptible to energy scams • Sea Power Piracy: Portuguese wave power system hijacked • TransAfrica CrowdPower Backbone Begun: Individuals help generate power from Cairo to Pretoria

  7. Breaking news • 75% of New Trees Must Be Fruit-Bearing: Washington DC adopts local-food ordinance to replace ornamental trees • • UN "Carbon for Food" proposal meets resistance from both food exporters and importers. • US Wheat Crop Shows Signs of Blight Infection: A wheat blight Ug99 outbreak has been confirmed in the US harvest for the first time • Bee colony forecast for Spring 2020 pushes food prices up.

  8. Breaking news • Indonesia declares "viral sovereignty," denies UN access to local ReDS variant genome. • US Supreme Court to hear case against employer who fired staff for staying home on "suggested isolation" days. • Productivity per-worker seeing steady decline due to pandemic effects, say OECD economists. • Biowarfare Claims in Pakistan-India Tensions: Guerilla groups use asymptomatic carriers as "Bio-Bombs"

  9. Breaking news • Deportation of Malaysian refugees from Singapore continues, despite protests. Official cite public safety, national security. • US Congress set to debate exurban reclamation bill, extending eminent domain to abandoned communities. • African Union study declares over 20% of the continent's population "displaced persons." • Bangalore software studio Indus River now offering "Diasporas" training simulation, based on Indian experience integrating Bangladeshi refugees.

  10. Breaking UR SLIDES Breaking news • Coordinated “transparency mobs" fallout continues: three more Fortune Global 500 CEOs resign in disgrace, facing corruption charges. • Baseball star MikoYamamoto denies exceeding Japanese carbon limits, claims intentional "data pollution" by rivals. • Apple denies rumors of new version of "iKnow" data gathering device. • MR5ive issues recall on NuView augmented reality glasses due to security flaw allowing outside control of user vision. Hello @janemcg WE CAN EVEN H4X Ur ETECHs! - transfer 10 million starquest gold pieces via the MMO Exchange or we pwn your slides - acc# 01922811002 1ntrud3rs fr0m sp4ce p.s. thanx 4 microc4sting your net coords sucka

  11. “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.”

  12. “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.”

  13. Reinventing Survivabilitywith WORK THAT MATTERS

  14. WORK THAT MATTERS: Which superthreat did you choose?

  15. Now please arrange and reseat yourselves accordingly – in less than 60 seconds.

  16. It’s 2019, and you’re doingWORK THAT MATTERS. What’s YOUR superthreat-fighting job title? SPEAKER Jane McGonigal U.S. Department of Games

  17. 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.

  18. “We mustcollaborate or perish.” - Wikinomics

  19. 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”)

  20. GAME DEVELOPERSnominated for a NOBEL PRIZE by 2034

  21. “Games are the most elevated form of investigation.” –Albert Einstein (a hard-core gamer!!)

  22. World Without Oil

  23. How we learned from World Without Oil 1.We can imagine the ripples of potential events across massively multiple domains

  24. How we learned from World Without Oil 2.Together, we can envision the “hard to see” (but theoretically possible) future

  25. How we learned from World Without Oil 3.Playing a forecasting game forces us to “build calluses” for our own personal benefit

  26. STILL LOOKS PROMISING!!! but….

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