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…just one of five global ‘superthreats’ that sit at the core of Superstruct, billed by its creators at the Institute for the Future as the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. Especially good is the system for determining your personal score, which depends on how many proficiency badges you gain (with varying scores depending on the level of challenge involved):
| High Ping Quotient | Excellent responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement; strong propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network |
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| Longbroading | Seeing a much bigger picture; thinking in terms of higher level systems, bigger networks, longer cycles |
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| Open Authorship | Creating content for public modification; the ability to work with massively multiple contributors |
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| Cooperation Radar | The ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task or mission |
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| Multi-Capitalism | Fluency in working and trading simultaneously with different hybrid capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social, financial, virtual |
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| Mobbability | The ability to do real-time work in very large groups; a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously; extreme-scale collaboration |
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| Protovation | Fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles; the ability to lower the costs and increase the speed of failure |
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| Influency | Knowing how to be persuasive and tell compelling stories in multiple social media spaces (each space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique) |
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| Signal/Noise Management | Filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from the massively-multiple streams of data and advice |
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| Emergensight | The ability to prepare for and handle surprising results and complexity that come with coordination, cooperation and collaboration on extreme scales |
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Here’s how to play. IFTF say:
More than just about imagining what lies ahead, Superstruct is about building a better, stronger future. It’s about inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.
We open up the future to the public, so that players can document their personal reactions to the scenario. Players are encouraged to “imagine out loud” how their families, their local communities, their professions, or their extended social networks might respond to the game scenarios.
They build websites from the future, keep blogs from the future, upload podcasts from the future, make videos from the future, develop research wikis from the future, and host discussion forums from the future.
In short, they persuasively record, discuss, and debate the details of how they imagine their own personal futures might play out within the game parameters. In Superstruct, we’ll show you the world as it might look in 2019—and you’ll show us what it’s like to live there.
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