Play the game before you face the reality.

On April 30, 2007, with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (as in PBS), a new alternate-reality game will be launched. Apparently, this is the first game meant to do good for society and backed by a nonprofit. There will be interactive storylines, which sounds like Second Life. Will it be like Second Life?

The game:

“. . . will ask players to imagine the U.S. without oil and envision how Americans would respond to such a crisis.”

It’s all part of the happiness hacking movement, according to the game developer. Technology that no only makes you feel good but urges you to do good.

Games for social good. Yay. When I need to face up to the future, I like to do so by plugging into virtual reality. Every day I’m already playing the game where I imagine what the world will be like without oil. I guess the fun of this will be to join the anticipated 100,000 others in my projected responses.

Meet you there?