"Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade."
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Gamers "Spoiling" AIDS virus
Remember how Jenkins describes the Survivor fan & spoiler community as an emerging form of collective intelligence? Remember how he describes us being in a stage of apprenticeship? He says that eventually, we'd figure out ways to apply the spoiling process to more serious matters. Well, here is collective intelligence at work on a more serious "puzzle."
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