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World Game: Buckminster Fuller's Unfinished Computer Game

Josh Pang, thesis, University of California Santa Cruz

Description

Pang's thesis analyses the World Game as an "unfinished computer game," tracing its conceptual evolution from the 1960s workshops to its potential realisation through contemporary technologies — blockchain for the World Resources Inventory, machine learning for the simulation engine. The most detailed modern technical assessment of the project.

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https://joshpang.com/world-game.pdf

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

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What does this material reveal? Where else does it lead?