How gaming can be a force for good | Noah Raford

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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If you think social media is powerful, keep an eye on immersive video games, says futurist Noah Raford. As more and more people are drawn into gaming and virtual worlds, the communities they forge are spawning real-world social movements. Raford urges us to recognize what's really going on -- and then harness those forces to build the future we want.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks Daily.
0:07.7	Even if you don't consider yourself a gamer or spend much time in virtual worlds, today's
0:12.2	talk is an essential one.
0:14.5	And his talk from Ted 2022, a futurist Noah Rayford connects escapist fantasies and the
0:19.8	violence that can begin in online communities with potential offline consequences.
0:25.6	He suggests how a more just world could come about by better understanding the motivations
0:31.4	and mechanisms at play.
0:33.4	Okay, that's coming up after the break.
0:35.8	Hey, I'm Stephen Johnson, host of the Ted Interview Podcast.
0:43.2	On this show, we talk to some of the world's most interesting people.
0:47.0	On the latest episode, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Demisisabis gives us a rare glimpse
0:52.4	at the dramatic things he's working on at his company DeepMind.
0:56.1	You know, the Silicon Valley trope of move fast and break things.
0:58.6	I think we should not do that.
1:00.6	Breaking things in the real world could be very, very damaging if the technology is very powerful.
1:06.3	Check out the Ted Interview on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
1:14.1	Do you spend more money on virtual fashion and video games than you do on physical
1:18.6	clothes?
1:20.7	How do you think the government is run by a secret cabal of demon worshipping perverts?
1:29.8	About 50 million people do.
1:32.8	These numbers sound crazy to you.
1:35.1	It's because they are, but they're also a sign of things to come.
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