PaperThe World Game
World Game: Buckminster Fuller's Unfinished Computer Game
Josh Pang, thesis, University of California Santa Cruz
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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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The Academy · May 27, 2026
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