Hi Abhay,

I participated in the 22 February workshop held at Palo Alto where we actually played a Superstruct like game from within the X2 site. By Superstruct I mean that we figured out possible technological advancements for the year 2019 and bet on these scenarios that are probably going to happen or are not going to happen by 2019. I especially liked that we had the options to create best and worst-case scenarios too and I think that people's abilities, motivations and skills might be different along best and worst case lines. Also we had to write down a plan on how we imagine our career path and what kind of position we think we would be in by 2019 and that personal part is also an attractive way to get people involved in the game.
Before the workshop I hadn't heard of the concept of prediction markets at all but I instantly understood and embraced the idea of it, as the inkling platform says:

"a prediction market is a way to ask for people's opinions and average them all together to predict something happening in the future.
The term "market" is used because possible answers to a question are represented as stocks. If you think an answer is correct, you buy stock in it. If you think it is incorrect, you sell. People buying and selling shares makes the stock prices go up and down. Each stock price represents the consensus opinion on what the chances are of that answer being correct. For example, if an answer (stock) has a price of $30, we say that answer has a 30% chance or 3 in 10 chance of happening."

When playing the game people can use their technological imaginations, i.e. their creative ideas backed by their knowledge of different fields and also their analytical, critical skills when evaluating the stocks. If organized and designed well a game like this can truly have an impact on the future and that is why it really worth building this site and playing the game.

Attila