Long Conversation #19 featured author and game designer Jane McGonigal and Long Now's co-founder and President Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog and author of the book "New Games" (1973). Jane McGonigal, PhD is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games — or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems — and author of "Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World."
Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over 6 hours in San Francisco on Saturday October 16, 02010. More on the event here: http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/oct/16/long-conversation/
Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.
Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer.