We all now understand that the past decade has let consumers build a ‘social layer’ on top of their everyday lives, using services such as Facebook and Twitter to capture their social lives on the web.

In this clip from TEDxBoston, proud Princeton “dropout” and mobile-entrepreneur Seth Priebatsch considers the next layer in progress: the “game layer” (a pervasive set of motivating ‘dynamics’ that will reshape education and commerce).