Reality Is Broken by Jane Mcgonigal
"McGonigal is a clear, methodical writer, and her ideas are well argued. Assertions are backed by countless psychological studies." --The Boston Globe"Powerful and provocative . . . McGonigal makes a persuasive case that games have a lot to teach us about how to make our lives, and the world, better." --San Jose Mercury News
"Jane McGonigal's insights have the elegant, compact, deadly simplicity of plutonium, and the same explosive force." --Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother
A visionary game designer reveals how we can harness the power of games to boost global happiness.
With 174 million gamers in the United States alone, we now live in a world where every generation will be a gamer generation. But why, Jane McGonigal asks, should games be used for escapist entertainment alone? In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games.
Jane McGonigal is also the author of SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.
Jane McGonigal, PhD, is a world-renowned game designer and futurist. takes the game seriously McGonigal is the Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, where her work on the future of games earned her a spot on the Harvard Business Review's Top 20 Breakthrough Ideas of 2008 list. Her work has been published in The Economist and Wired, and she was named one of the 100 most creative individuals in business by The New York Times. She's spoken at TED, SXSW Interactive, the Game Developers Conference, ETech, and the Web 2.0 Summit, as well as The New Yorker Conference.
Jane, who was born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, now lives with her husband in San Francisco. SuperBetter: A New Way to Becoming Stronger, Happier, Braver, and More Resilient is her first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143120612 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143120611 |
| Title | Reality Is Broken |
| Author | Jane Mcgonigal |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2011-12-27 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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