SXSW Panel: Visualizing Sustainability
By jmj1. Tuesday, 11. March 2008, 17:34:07
This panel was less about games than the panel description made it seem. The most focused discussion of anything game-like was of virtual worlds, which—as Joel Greenberg of podaddies.com pointed out—are social spaces that don't have game like goals.Instead the panelists were primarily interested in how visualizations can be used to create feedback loops that change people's behavior. As Greenberg and Dawn Danby of Aylanto argued, being able to "see" data impacts—and changes—the way we view reality. Jamais Cascio, the World-Builder-in-Chief of Open the Future, pointed out that mobile interfaces are a key part of this process, claiming that "Cell phones"—like AK-47s—"are inherently revolutionary."
