Recreation Time

FORA.tv – Philip Zimbardo: The Time Paradox.

This hour-long talk by Philip Zimbardo (known for the famous <a href = “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_study”>Stanford Prison Study</a>) is a fascinating look at how our subjective sense of time shapes the quality of our life. He references games a bit, but after talking with Frank Lantz (Area/Code, NYU and BudgetBall collaborator) I think games like Budgetball, which focus on encouraging future oriented thinking through the compression of time, could really contribute to these ideas. Either way, it’s pretty interesting:

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