Talk:World Game

This is the answer to all of the questions you have about life. -C.M. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.250.189 (talk) 03:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I added the commercial marker to the link to osearth.com as the site appears to offer only pricing on hosting a workshop. The link has no information that I could find. If it is a non-profit, the tag I added can be changed to be more appropriate but there should be a marker indicating that there is no information at the site, just pricing for workshops. 64.134.145.186 (talk) 20:20, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

So what IS the World Game? 84.112.202.36 (talk) 10:11, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

It's not the game known as soccer or football.


 * The World (Peace) Game (http://challenge.bfi.org/sites/challenge.bfi.org/files/pdf_files/world_game_series_document1.pdf) is an apolitical global resources, logistics and Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science socio-economic simulation. The main goal is to solve the problem of how every person born on this planet can be cared for with a high standard of living while at the same time not disadvantaging others or destroying our spaceship earth. The game is played on a large dymaxion map of spaceship earth. A very large database of information regarding earth's resources, their location, availability, etc. and human needs and behaviours is kept on a supercomputer and can be shown in static or dynamic ways on the dymaxion map when desired. Primarily, the player or players will be trying to invent some artifact or process that will do more with less and involve reforming the environment rather than trying to reform people (E.g. Invent an overpass rather than creating laws about stopping at stop signs). Bucky pointed out that if you threw all the tools and equipment of industrial society at the sun, a lot of people would die of starvation, exposure and a lot of other things very quickly. If you rounded up all the politicians and sent them on a trip to the sun, people would not be too bad off. He also pointed out that the real value of a litre of oil is way over a million dollars when priced according Cosmic Accounting and represents a savings account that should not be spent unwisely.


 * The world game is also not a zero sum game.


 * Medard Gabel conducted some World Game workshops in the late 1970's that were published. One was about Global Food Production entitled, "Ho-Ping: Food for Everyone" and the other was on energy, entitled, "Energy, Earth and Everyone.


 * "The World Game is a precisely defined design science process for arriving at economic, technological and social insights pertinent to humanity’s future envolvement aboard our planet Earth"


 * "My World PEACE Gaming Science changes the basic assumption of fundamental inadequacy of total life support and applies total capability toward the success of all humans."


 * "World Game: A grand-strategy program developing the design science of solving all problems with artifacts, invented by self or others, which take advantage of all scientific and technological development through studies of their effects on the total world's social and economic affairs as ascertainable from the Dymaxion SkyOcean World Map. A means of assessing the feasibility of realizing various initiatives in solving world problems. Invented, 1927; applied, 1928."

- Grunch of Giants by R. Buckminster Fuller http://www.bfi.org/search/node/world%20game?page=2


 * "I invented the name World Game to identify my 43-year-long developed comprehensive anticipatory

design science exploration. I have applied for copyright and trademarking of the name." Pg. 5 http://challenge.bfi.org/sites/challenge.bfi.org/files/pdf_files/world_game_series_document1.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.159.209.23 (talk) 22:33, 18 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Information regarding "World Game" can be found in R. Buckminster Fuller's book, "Critical Path" primarily in Chapter 6, Pp. 198-226. The index also lists related references to World Game.


 * Another reference to World Game can be found in R. Buckminster Fuller's book, "Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity" (1969)in Chapter 6, "The World Game - How to Make the World Work", Bantam Edition, 2nd printing Pp. 157-161. 136.159.209.23 (talk) 17:09, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

osEarth acquired, World Game has moved
From personal research, I found out that the (project?) got taken over by Schumacher Center for a New Economics in 2019, and that the World Game is now hosted/active on World Game Workshop. I am conveying this information in the hope that someone can properly and relevantly update the page as I do not know how. --212.120.240.207 (talk) 18:50, 13 January 2021 (UTC)