¶ World Game
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… He says he wants "to computerize World Game and develop large mechanical devices, great miniature Earths where society could see things happening. I find that unless people see things move they don’t pay much attention to them…
"Not only do we have a very limited color spectrum-- of red, orange, green, blue, violet, which are less than a millionth of all frequencies operative in physical Universe, but we have a very limited motion spectrum. You don’t even see the hands of the clock move. We do have afterimage enough to remember that the hands were over there.
“You don’t see the trees grow and you don’t see the child grow. So I’ve learned that when you do see things move you change. And it is possible to take a moving picture and accelerate the picture. In one of the pictures Bob Snyder /his son-in-law who makes films of Bucky and his work_/ has, you see-- the Kaiser dome in Hawaii I believe it was-- you see it all put together in one minute or a half-minute. So it is possible to accelerate in such a way that people will understand what they’re seeing.”
