How video games can use their power for good | Noah Raford

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 15 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 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.
0:07.3	Even if you don't consider yourself a gamer or spend much time in virtual worlds, today's talk is an essential one.
0:13.9	And his talk from TED 2022, futurist Noah Rayford connects escapist fantasies and the violence that can begin in online communities
0:22.2	with potential offline consequences. But he suggests how a more just world could come about
0:28.4	by better understanding the motivations and mechanisms at play. Okay, that's coming up after the break.
0:37.4	Do you spend more money on virtual fashion and video games? Okay, that's coming up after the break.
0:41.1	Do you spend more money on virtual fashion and video games than you do on physical clothes?
0:44.1	About a third of all teenage gamers in America do.
0:47.9	Do you think the government is actually run by a secret cabal of demon-worshipping perverts?
0:53.3	About 50 million people do.
0:56.2	These numbers sound crazy to you?
0:58.7	It's because they are,
1:00.5	but they're also a sign of things to come.
1:03.4	The world feels like a pretty insane place right now.
1:06.5	If you spend any time on the internet at all,
1:09.3	you can probably tell that people think it's going to get a lot worse.
1:14.0	Now, that may be the case.
1:16.4	But this feeling is why I believe that we're going to see a rise in social unrest
1:20.2	in the coming decades,
1:21.7	and that it's going to come from a surprising place.
1:25.8	Video games.
1:28.0	Now, before you think,
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