Are We Playing The Right Games?

Games With A Purpose?

According to Wikipedia, there are some 480 million Monopoly players worldwide making it the most played board game in the world (Guinness Book of World Records).   The recent global financial crisis makes me wonder what games like Monopoly are teaching us.   Greed?  Win-lose?  Having been played billions of times, it’s having some influence on our behaviors and our beliefs.  

Maybe it’s time time to play a different kind of game.   Here’s one - Games With a Purpose (GWAP) .  A game that’s fun to play, where everyone can win (I thought it was that everyone wins.) and that serves a purpose.  Why isn’t there a “popular

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