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Serious gaming demands serious consideration
By WDavidStephenson | July 11, 2007
Long-time readers may remember that I wrote last year about the potential of Harvey Smith’s “Peace Bomb” concept (he dreamed it up for the annual Serious Games Summit), as a way to draw the general public into preparations for terrorist attacks.
Now old pal George Mokray calls my attention to this Salon piece about serious games such as World Without Oil, that 
make my optimism about the potential of massively multiplayer online games to really play a substantive role in creating public interest in anti-terror preparation. More important, as the World Without War example shows, the gaming may lead to innovative thinking as well. Continued…
Topics: empowering public, technology, policy and politics, collaboration, e-gov transformation, networked security | |
