Re: Life in 2019
Dan Goodman
> I read about an interesting project (http://superstructgame.org/)
> started by game developer Jane McGonical. The idea is to use online
> gaming to make practical forecasts. She wants scientists to solve
> society's big problems by gaming out future world-scenarios.
>
> Could be of interest to RASFCers.
Futurologists have been something similar since at least the 1960s.
I've bookmarked it.
You might be interested in http://www.longbets.org/
One problem I can see with gaming out scenarios is that what works well
in the game and what works well in the real world are unlikely to be
anywhere near the same.
And, of course, there are the problems which this scenario had (from
Abebooks):
How McGovern Won the Presidency & Why the Polls Were Wrong (ISBN:
0345029453)
Tobier, Arthur
Bookseller: Oddball Books
(Burbank, CA, U.S.A.)
Bookseller Rating: 5-star rating
Price: US$ 11.25
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Quantity: 1 Shipping within U.S.A.:
US$ 4.00
Book Description: Ballantine, New York, 1972. Mass Market Paperback.
Book Condition: Very Good. First Printing. Bookseller Inventory # 028878
And similar scenarios about President Goldwater.
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