2. World Game
“...The world game is a precisly de ned design science process for arriving at economic, technological and social insights
pertinent to humanity’s future envolvement aboard our planet.
The process consists of mathematical procedures not only as incisive and complex as those involved in celestial navigation,
or astro-ballistics, or the space programm but even more so...”
-Buckminter Fuller
World WAR Gaming Science
VS
World PEACE Gaming Science
3. 150 million 750 million
USSR CHINA
35x 7x
[1971]
5 billion
“The World Game must nd the speci c means of making ve billion humans a total economic and physical
success at the earliest possible moment without anyone being advantaged at the expense of another.”
-Buckminter Fuller
4. Game Play
“Our World Game will be played electroniclly by remote controls on a giant model of our earth globe opened out into its at
projetion which will be the size of a football eld.
World leaders will be invited to play the game and to introduce any new data they deem to be missing and the computers
memory banks will retain all the data ever fed into it as well as remembering all the plays that have been previously made
and their respective outcomes.
-Buckminter Fuller
“I propose that if anyone playing the game employs ideological biases and attempts to enforce the dominance of one by
another through resort to guns, that such players be disquali ed. The game must be won by peaceful means, by the use of
itelligence and proper use of out resources. The players will not compete.; they will engage in cooperative exploration to see
how all humanity can win a successful, pollution-free, life.
...Prizes will be given to those who successfuly improve the standards of living for all while lving within our ”income” energy
and not upon our “savings account” energy supply and thus guard the living of future generations and humanity to come.
-Buckminter Fuller
5. First-Things-First
“In today’s economic books there is not one sentence about doing more with less. Everyone knows what ships and airplanes
weigh - the Queen Mary 85, 00 tons but not even the architects, let alone the public at large, know what any of our land
buildings weigh.
Weight is not in the language of land architecture; not even within 100,000 ton approximations.
If you dont know what buildings wigh, then you are not thinking in terms of performance per pound, let alone more perfor-
mance per pound to be accomplished by the incorporation of this and that newly and scienti cally discovered physcial
principle.”
-Buckminter Fuller
6. Total Life Support
Francois de Chadenedes -Natural pruduction of Petroleum
Photosynthetic transformation to hydrocarbon
Sun radiation transfromation into vegitation
biological transformation into residue
Wind blown / Water washed accumulations
Buried within outer crust
Ice age heat and pressure
Earthquakes
Cost per gallon of petrolum for nature to produce energy at rate of public utilites
+$1,000,000 per gallon
60% of all jobs in the USA are not producing any real wealth - “life support”
Individual uses 3 - 4 gallons of petroleum per day for transportation
What is earths savings per day If worker were payed wage to stay at home
+$500,000,000,000,000 per day
The old education facilities and a small fraction of individual teachers who love most to teach will use the old eductional
facilities within which to produce the cassette programs... Those who qualify...will not be paid for it...They will act as does any
amateur athlete - - doing what they do for the love of it.
The computer will prove to society theat it will pat to introduce automation wherever feasible and to allow the machines to
work twenty-four-hour days while paying yesterday’s workers in full to stay at home.
-Buckminter Fuller
7. T H E U.S. vs. T H E W O R L D
OF THE FOLLOWING, THESE ARE. THE RESPECTIVE SHARES
I WORLD RESOURCES
EA CH IN THE EACH THE
PEST 1 ‘HE WORLD
AREA
POTENTIAL W‘ATER POWER POTENTIAL WATER POWER
SHEEP POPULATION SHEEP
CATTLE POPULATION
CULTIVATED WHEATLAND CULTIVATED WHEA
HOG POPULATION HOG POPULATION
COPPER COPPER
WATER-WHE EL CAPACITY WATER-WHEEL CAP.
IRON ORE IRON ORE
CULTIVATED C LAND CULTIVATED LAND
COAL COAL
PETROLEUM PETROLEUM
8. 3 PRODUCTS IN USE
TELEPHONES
MOTIONPICTURETHEATRES
NONMILITARYAIRPLANES
BATHTUBS
9. ider a number of examples. industry be located? Thus, each group must ascend through questions 1 through being aware of
eI the information gathered by all other groups. The questions of Stage II were to be answered by each
“unit”; they are integrative questions which lead the students to synthesize all the data of preceding
If we take the topic Glass as an example, we see that Unit I would concern itself with answering questions This would be then followed by each of these groups presenting their results to one another and
Chart III questions I (a) (b) (c) and (d) i.e. what is glass, how is it made, etc. then integrating this information to form the basis of their explorations into the chosen topic of the
Simultaneously other groups would gather similar information for Paper, Plastic, Farm Waste, etc. so workshop-in this particular case a regenerative resource industry
in the first work period this set of questions would be answered for all topics under consideration. At
nd of this period copies of the information gathered by each group should be made and distributed to
ther groups. This procedure would ensure that all the participants while gathering somewhat specialist
mation would in fact be comprehensively informed as to what information was being gathered by the
e group as a unit
Next a similar operation for questions 2 and d would be performed, the information shared, Chart V illustrates the flow of information through the organization while emphasizing the relations
so on. Thus, if we wish to know what 3d under Plastics means, we find from Chart III that it relates to of each question to the whole scheme and in particular the importance of feedback to the comprehensive
question: How fast does Plastic recycle at the present time? nature of all information gathering.
e II All the charts together illustrate the process and organization-from general overview of the actual
project to the specific structure of the group-used by the University of Southern California workshop.
When answers to all the questions indicated have been gathered and shared with all other participants, The content of this organization and process was chosen to facilitate a more comprehensive and
e II of the operation can begin i.e. integration of the information. Here 1 refers to Stage II question scientifically exact study being carried out by the World Resources Inventory
CHART V: EXAMPLE OF INFORMATION FLOW
WHAT BASIC
WHAT HOW IS HOW MUCH WHAT TECH'S REGENERATIVE
IS IT? IT MADE? CAN BE PROCESSES
ARE NEEDED?
RE-USED? ARE REDUNDANT?
HOW MUCH HOW MUCH
WHAT TECH‘S HOW CAN ALL
WASTE IS WHERE CAN IT 12 RESOURCES
IS THERE? BE RE-USED? ARE POSSIBLE?
THERE? BE COMBINED?
WHAT ARE THE HOW FAST REGENERATIVE
GLASS
HOW MUCH WHERE IS EXISTING DOES THE WHERE
IT RESOURCES
IS NEEDED? IT USED? TECH'S FOR RESOURCE INDUSTRY
RESOURCE) BE LOCATED?
RECYCLING? RECYCLE NOW?
WHERE WHERE IS WHAT HOW IS THE HOW LONG
IS IT? IT MADE? RESOURCES RESOURCE SHOULD IT
ARE NEEDED? COLLECTED? EXIST?
JHAT WOULD HAPPEN HOW DOES IT WILL
HOW IS HOW CAN WE
IT USED? RE-USE IT? IF IT WERE NOT NEED TO BE THE
RE-CYCLED? COLLECTED? PRODUCT BE?
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