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Jane McGonical of Princeton's Institute for the Future makes the case for video game playing and real world applications of the technology. An example she uses is the knowledge base created by World of Warcraft users, the size of which rivals Wikipedia. She contradicts popular images of gamers as solitary and isolated, showing instead community-building and the self-valuation and validation gamers experience from collaborating with others of like interest. She goes on to describe real-world applications of video games, current and potential

A seminal article on how video games are already incorporated into many aspects of everyday technology use.