Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for March 2010

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world I don’t know if this is what I am looking for, I don’t think it is really. There is something to it, but I kinda see things the other way around. Not with harnessing gamers to save the world, but rather giving people who play games better […]

Where does all the hubris go when its not needed?

“…Come evangelists of the Grand New Age proclaiming the future that they stole.” Time to steal it back. Ten years since the height of the tech bubble? A lost decade? I was still coding security protocols for an embedded OS stack a decade ago, getting itchy feet when they put us on sanitising somebody elses […]