JANE MCGONIGAL, PhD, is a future forecaster and designer of games created to improve real lives and solve real problems. She is the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Reality Is Broken and SuperBetter, and her TED talks on how gaming can make a better world have more than 15 million views. She was named a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum; one of Fast Company's "Top 100 Creative People in Business"; and one of the "Top 35 innovators changing the world through technology" by MIT Technology Review. She is the Director of Games Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit research group in Palo Alto, California
