Wonderful essay on how geeks think, with an emphasis on computer games.

I have been thinking to do something similar with fly courtship behaviour…

The familiarity is scary

No single movie has all of these. Still nice to see people refusing to be treated as sheep.

The speaker defines the ethnosphere as all the human cultures in the world. They are going extinct at a rate that no biologist would consider acceptable for the biosphere.

If for nothing else, you should watch this for the very useful advice on how to make a knife out of nothing in cold weather. The best example of the persistence and ingenuity of the human spirit I have heard!

This is an amazing proposition. Current 21 year old gamers have spent almost as much time at school as playing online games. Whatever they learn while playing these games, they are very good at it. And their potential to apply it to the real world remains untapped.

Jane McConigal calls their skills ‘superpowers’. They are Blissful productivity, Social fabric, Urgent optimism and Epic meaning.

A very refreshing, thought-provoking 20-min video I highly recommend.