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McGonigal: Play Videogames, Save The World


Jane McGonigal thinks that gaming can save the world. We currently spend three billion hours a week playing online games. McGonigal says we need to raise that total to twenty-one billion hours a week by the next decade, if we want to address the world's problems. Counter-intuitive, yes. I thought there were only 168 hours in a week... Watch her talk below.

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