Even if you’ve never played a video game in your life, video game design and gamification are still shaping our lives. 155 million Americans spend over 20 billion dollars a year on video games, so is it any wonder that computer games are influencing our experiences of healthcare, human resources, education and business?
Video Games are often blamed for all kinds of social ills, but there’s a lot more to the influence of gaming culture than you might expect.
And we’ll start with a conversation with Michael Clune, (pictured left) author of his new memoir GameLife– A Memoir of Childhood. Clune arguesthat the computer games he played growing up were actually crucial to his spiritual education. And we’ll look at how gamification is helping upstate businesses collaborate more effectively.
And in the second hour of Innovation Friday, Taxation. We hate paying them, but we’ll spend an hour talking about taxes! As we head towards the end of the federal fiscal year we’ll talk with Sheila Weinberg from the non-partisanTruth in Accounting about how every U.S. State including this one, is hiding pension and health care benefit debt from their financial reporting to the tune of more than $950 BILLION dollars. That all turns into taxpayer burden. Ever heard of the sinkhole states?
And then we’ll ask whether it’s possible to have FAIR taxation with Jill Gonzalez from Wallethub. Is it fuzzy math, or are we really able to work towards a fairer system of taxation?
Guests:
Michael W. Clune: Professor in the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University
JP Dyson, Director and Jeremy Saucier, Assistant Director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at The Strong National Museum of Play.
Deborah A. Gears, Ph.D. Associate Professor Rochester Institute of Technology, Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Department of Information Sciences and Technologies
Sheila Weinberg – Founder and CEO Truth in Accounting
Jill Gonzalez - Spokesperson WalletHub