Michael Wu, Ph.D. is Lithium's Principal Scientist of Analytics, digging into the complex dynamics of social interaction and group behavior in online communities and social networks.
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What we need now in my opinion are game design patterns for such areas as education (ie learning a subject), small business, etc as well as easy to use technology tools to enable this for people who aren't tech savvy. Think of the success and virality of cut and paste widgets like YouTube embed codes, wordpress plugins, and the like. We should all understand the underlying motivations and attraction to games by now. What we need is design and implementation to solve real problems.