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Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier cover image

Greg Watson on Buckminster Fuller, the World Grid and World Game

Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

CHAPTER

The World Grid and the World Game

There's some uncanny resemblances to biological phenomena. We see in biology, auto-poecis, where different entities come together and create something almost spontaneously. And we also see how there's this evolutionary emergence in the struggle to be symbiotic - both competitive and cooperative at the same time. The idea of the game and the world grid exercises is to say that we still have to obey the laws of physics and biology, but we can tinker with the policies and the politics which we've set before ourselves.

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