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Baseball and Prediction
- Baseball players predict the future by unconsciously picking up on pitchers' body movements.
- This explains why they struggle to hit softballs, which have different cues.
Predicting the Future Through Games
- Jane McGonigal designs alternate reality games to help people develop future-predicting skills.
- Her book, Reality is Broken, explores why people engage deeply with virtual worlds.
Predicting the Pandemic
- In a pre-COVID pandemic simulation game, players exhibited behaviors mirroring the real pandemic.
- This included mask polarization, misinformation, and even a QAnon-like phenomenon.