Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971006164140.8083B-100000@gusun> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:21:43 -0400 From: Martin Sieg <mailto:siegm@gusun.georgetown.edu> Subject: World Game ! To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
This should be of interest for anyone who is interested in international development and/or how technology can be used to share ideas about the world's problems and how to solve them.
-------- FORWARDED MESSAGE (selection)----------- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 12:24:39 -0400 From: Kevin Taglang <mailto:kevint@BENTON.ORG> Reply-To: mailto:lists@BENTON.ORG Subject: Communications-related Headlines for 10/6/97
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Title: World Game Achieves Inventor's Vision of Global Play Source: CyberTimes <http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/100397netgame.html> Author: David J. Wallace Issue: Internet Content Description: More than 30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller envisioned a "World Game" that would be played simultaneously on computers around the world. The game would focus on how to solve such world problems as population, explosion, hunger, disease and the allocation of natural resources. The one thing that held him back was the inability to link computers together. In August, a version of this game, called NetWorldGame, was introduced on the World Wide Web. In this version participants "assume roles as citizens of various nations and take on responsibilities for solving regional or local concerns through trade, negotiation or political discussion." Medard Gabel, executive director of the World Game Institute based in Philadelphia, said "there's a richer data stream and a chance to play for more than a few hours. But the downside is that you lose the social interaction. Some of the solutions may be very good, they may be implementable in the real world. And they may come from a high school student, a corporate lawyer or an expert." The game was tested last year in the United Nations, Congress and several high schools. As opposed to being viewed as just an educational exercise, the NetWorldGame is "intended to spur real change in the status quo." You can access the NetWorldGame at: <http://www.worldgame.org/networldgame>.
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