Folding into the Crowd
One of the best examples of Empowerment & Creativity & Feedback is seen in the new trend of Crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the activity of throwing a challenge or activity into the public and having the masses collaborate or competitively solve the problem.
Well known examples such as the XPRIZE allows individuals and teams to engineer new solutions in advanced technology such as aerodynamics and space travel to advance the human race; while Kaggle allows the brightest mathematical minds to solve predictive modeling and analytics problems84.
A very popular example in the serious game space has been FoldIt introduced in Chapter 4. For many years, scientists have tried to decipher the crystal structure of an AIDS virus labelled as the Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV), in order to advance their understanding of AIDS treatment and prevention. Unfortunately, after fifteen years of research, this problem remained unresolved85.
Fortunately, in 2008, David...