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Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling? | Video on TED.com

Written by Brandon Klein | Nov 15, 2013 8:48:53 PM

What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened when Jane McGonigal tried to teach TED to play her favorite game. Then again, when the game is "massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling," what else would you expect?

Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how.