I'm asking because I have trouble imagining the kind of game you see as winning a Nobel prize someday but Reddit always keeps coming to my mind. I realize your forecast is meant as a provocation, an imaginative leap, or perhaps even a koan, but taking Reddit as a starting point, how would you tweak it to make it (or one of its subreddits) Nobel-worthy one day?
Thanks Jane! :) I've read your book and loved it. Your ideas and enthusiasm have been a source of great inspiration for me.
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How about thinking of Reddit as a massively multiplayer gaming world? It's open-ended, built simply on sharing and voting, but its most successful campaigns are formalized into subreddits (IAma, AskReddit, bestof, TIL, ELI5, WTF, 50/50, Gentleman Boners, Crazy Ideas, Map Porn, AskHistorians...) and there are also plenty of impromptu informal campaigns like memes or the recent fever for creating variations of the 2048 game in Hacker News (a Reddit clone for hackers & startups). Do you see it that way too, perhaps?
I'm asking because I have trouble imagining the kind of game you see as winning a Nobel prize someday but Reddit always keeps coming to my mind. I realize your forecast is meant as a provocation, an imaginative leap, or perhaps even a koan, but taking Reddit as a starting point, how would you tweak it to make it (or one of its subreddits) Nobel-worthy one day?
Thanks Jane! :) I've read your book and loved it. Your ideas and enthusiasm have been a source of great inspiration for me.
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