Can a game help us prepare for a major oil crisis?
As the price of gas continues to rise to record levels in the real world, Internet users around the world are playing an alternate reality game in which they pretend the U.S. is facing an acute oil shortage that's driving gasoline prices to crisis levels.
The idea of World Without Oil is to tap collective intelligence to help us wade through a real crisis in the future - to generate conversation among bloggers, gamers, and other content creators to come up with creative ways to deal with oil dependency through play.
Guest: Jane McGonigal