Encouraged by comments from my wife that my blog "isn't that bad," I've decided to trek on. I received an article in the mail from my best friend and fellow gamer from the WSJ today. You can read it here: http://on.wsj.com/ff8lAY. This article along with other things such as IBM's CityOne and the book Total Engagement by Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read are starting to prove that gaming really will be shaping the future of workplace productivity, technology, and human interaction.
Why is it that gaming is having such a profound impact? Well, in my uneducated opinion, the answer is simple: Gaming is something that millions of people around the world enjoy - together. What I mean is gaming is a much more interactive media than anything else western societies enjoy today such as television, movies, or reading because in almost any game today, you interact with other human being and that interaction increases the enjoyment for all parties involved.
It is because of peoples enjoyment of gaming as well as its massive untapped potential as a productivity enhancement tool that I think in ten years, some of the most successful companies will have introduced gaming elements into much of their workplace environment. For example, why have a boring training simulation where you read a screen for an hour with a bit of lame flash player gimmicks when you could have something like IBM's CityOne teaching you about energy efficiency. Another example: Avatars that mimick your movements using a Kinect like device that you can use instead of a teleconference. Examples like this make work more fun which can increase productivity. What company doesn't want to see their employees enjoying themselves while putting out quality work? I think this is the wave of the future - only time will tell if I'm right or just some joker who spends too much time interacting with pixels on a screen...
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