One of the not-to-miss books for for the first half of 2011 is Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken. McGonigal is making a persuasive argument that games bring out the best in us and we should find more ways to incorporate the qualities of games into real life.
McGonigal was in Portland last night at the OMSI Science Pub. Here is a short clip from her talk where she talks about the four superpowers we acquire as we play more games.