Superstruct: How to Invent the Future by Playing a Game

What are the five biggest problems the world will face in 2019 – and how can we get a head-start on solving them together? Find out in this talk, which presents the results of Superstruct, the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game.

Produced by the Instititute for the Future, Superstruct is a crowd-sourcing experiment designed to create collaborative future scenarios and prototype solutions to future problems. For six weeks, more than 7000 players tackled the biggest “Superthreats” of the coming decade – from pandemics to climate refugees, network griefers to food chain instabilities – and contributed their best ideas for inventing the future of health, food, energy, security, and society.

Get a sneak preview of the institute’s official Superstruct Report, which presents the players’ top collective insights about the year 2019, and the crowd’s best tactics for superstructing society.