It’s 2019. Where are you having dinner tonight?
The Institute for the Future and Jane McGonigal are launching the “world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game” in September – Superstruct!.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
Humans have 23 years to go
Global Extinction Awareness System starts the countdown for Homo sapiens.
PALO ALTO, CA — Based on the results of a year-long supercomputer simulation, the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) has reset the “survival horizon” for Homo sapiens – the human race – from “indefinite” to 23 years.
“The survival horizon identifies the point in time after which a threatened population is expected to experience a catastrophic collapse,” GEAS president Audrey Chen said. “It is the point from which it a species is unlikely to recover. By identifying a survival horizon of 2042, GEAS has given human civilization a definite deadline for making substantive changes to planet and practices.”
The game is a collective invitation to work out how we live in a world threatened with collapse, and what we could do to make sure that the world of 2019 is one we want to live in. The game proper starts on the 22nd September, but before that the team are asking you to imagine it’s the summer of 2019 and answer the question “where are you having dinner tonight?” Mail them at superstruct@iftf.org – the more people contributing to the hivemind, the better the game will work.
And I’m sure that in 2019 using the word “dinner” for the evening meal will still be U.
