Jane McGonigal feels gaming can save the world

Jane McGonigal feels that through gaming, we can save the world and in order to do that, we need to go from spending 3 billion hours a week playing online games, to 21 billion hours a week gaming online.

During her speech, posted over on RPS, Jane said that as a culture gamers leave our "broken" world and run off to our virtual ones because its a  more rewarding cohesive place.

"When we're in game worlds I believe that many of us become the best versions of ourselves," she said. "The most likely to help at a moment's notice, most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes, to get up after failure and try again."

It is a very interesting talk, and one that expands on her belief that MMOs generate collective intelligence, and can be utilized as a solution to social issues.

Go have a watch.

McGonigal is a designer and researcher, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games, according to this.