Ray Kurzweil Launches MMO Forecasting Game

the world's first massively multiplayer online forecasting game, Superstruct. Utilizing forums, blogs, wikis, and other online spaces, players follow mission-based criteria to report on what it's like to live in the year 2019. Superstruct is developed by the Ten-Year Forecast team at the Institute for the Future, a not-for-profit think tank based in Palo Alto, California. The game started October 6 and will last for approximately six weeks. When the game is over, the Forecast team "will analyze player-created content" and "prepare an official Superstruct Report featuring our top... [read full story]