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World Game:
"That, of course, looms as possible in terms of science. But the trouble is all the international setups; you see the bureaucracy of politics everywhere. We are not educatable fast enough to realize that scientists could bring us enough to go around. But you can’t do it if you have the protective barriers because the resources must be able to flow very evenly around. You would have to make all these alloys, and so forth. Have to be equal. You don’t judge people in terms of where they live. They are simply world men. You must produce the world man. Science says you could make the world successful if you do that.
“So in my World Game I have proposed that we play the computer game and with this very dramatic setup, electronic capability, to see we might say: ‘Where is all the copper?’ and here’s where it is. Which is low grade? How much is in buildings? How do we re-use our copper in such a way that we can improve the performance per pound, which lots of people haven’t realized you could do. The game would be played by anybody. We would like the Russians to play this game. And everybody.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to Verner Smythe, New York, tape 1, pp.2-3, 25 Feb’69
