Book description
We are living in a world full of games.
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers.
The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age
of twenty-one.
The future belongs to those who play games.
In this ground-breaking book, visionary game designer Jane McGonigaI
challenges conventional thinking and shows that games - far from being
simply escapist entertainment - have the potential not only to
radically improve our own lives but to change the world.
Jane McGonigal, Ph. D. is the Director of Game Research and
Development at the Institute for the Future. Her work has been featured
in the
Economist
,
Wired
, and
The New York Times
; and on MTV, CNN, and NPR. In 2009, BusinessWeek called her one of the
10 most important innovators to watch. She has given keynote addresses
at TED, South by Southwest Interactive, the Game Developers Conference
and was a featured speaker at The New Yorker Conference.
