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“What began as a marketing tool has now become a lot more useful: playing with alternate realities can solve real problems.” The writer is Anne Wollenberg, her article’s in The Guardian, and she’s talking about the genre started by the World Without Oil game. Read the article; it’s really excellent and lays out pretty clearly the potential that these collaborative games have to save the world. (And let’s shout out to WWO player RockLobster, quoted in the article! Woo!)
As a result of our current concatenation of calamities, future thinking and what-if scenarios have suddenly become the thing to do. Witness a CNN Special titled “We Were Warned: Out of Gas,” sent my way by alert WWO fan Diane. The behind-the-scenes commentary, however, is more interesting and real to me than the Hollywood-style cinematic premise. The revolution will not be telescripted; it’s already begun. Video scene from Kalwithoutoil.
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July 24, 2008 at 9:56 am
Megiddo
This was great! Thanks for sharing. Speaking of shout outs, I left one for the WWO team over at the Superstruct site http://www.iftf.org/node/2098 right now my story is on the second page toward the top.
Just my way of thaking you and the WWO team for a wonderful experience.
M
July 30, 2008 at 1:11 pm
WriTerGuy
Hey Megiddo! That’s a great post for SuperStruct, and of course you’re bestowing great honor on WWO and its characters. WWO says, yay you!
March 11, 2011 at 7:57 am
Last week’s letters and blog pingbacks in full
[...] ARGS >> As a result of our current concatenation of calamities, future thinking and what-if scenarios have suddenly become the thing to do. Witness a CNN Special titled “We Were Warned: Out of Gas,” sent my way by alert WWO fan Diane. The behind-the-scenes commentary, however, is more interesting and real to me than the Hollywood-style cinematic premise. The revolution will not be telescripted; it’s already begun. wwolives.wordpress.com [...]