¶ Politicians
Index Entry
Politicians:
"Politicians are going to confess the obvious-- that no human beings can keep in mind all the special interests of all people and all the whereabouts and unique behaviors of all the resources of Earth. No human beings can persuade other people to behave in unfamiliar,untried ways, but the computer can integrate and disclose the critical information and be completely convincing… As the world game is played progressively it will disclose a myriad of politically untried, unprecedented yet effective ways of solving hitherto unsurmountable problems. These will become big news items of the world’s press and international wire services. As man gets into more critical proximity to a full-scale World War Three, the people of the world will begin to say in increasing numbers, ‘Now that we can see a way in which this and that can be done, we must obviously adopt the policies indicated by the World Game.’ Popular pressures will gradually force world politics to yield to these mutually beneficial world game programs.
“Our greatest problem is the educational problem of getting man to realize in time what his programs are, and what the most effective priorities may be for saving them.”
