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Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

Alexx Henry, Cory Strassburger, and Ming Hsiung produced a motion cover and feature spread for Viv Mag — an all-digital magazine that will live on the iPad and other tablet devices.

You can also view the behind-the-scenes featurette.

This video was prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books. Originally meant solely for a DK sales conference, the video was such a hit internally that it is now being shared externally.

We hope you enjoy it (and make sure you watch it up to at least the halfway point, there’s a surprise!).

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Harold Abelson says, “It might be engineering or it might be art. [...] It actually has a lot of common with magic. [...] It’s not really very much about computers, and it’s not about computers in the same sense that Physics is not really about particle accelerators and Biology is not really about microscopes and Petri dishes. And it’s not about computers in the same sense that Geometry is not really about using surveying instruments. In fact, there’s a lot of commonality between Computer Science and Geometry. Geometry, first of all, is another subject with a lousy name.”

So what is Computer Science about? It is about techniques for controlling the complexity of very large systems. For some reason, this made me think of J. R. R. Tolkien writing The Lord of the Rings.

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Bored with his ad agency gig and the uninspiring work he was producing, Ji Lee – now Creative Director of Google Creative Lab – decided to take matters into his own hands in 2002.