Buckminster Fuller's World Game

Ideas, which are simple, meet the world in a dance, with an element of tension or give and take. In their manifestations, ideas always change. If they are forced too rigidly onto the world, then there are bound to be damaging results—the world bites back. This is why I advocate evolutionary, experimental implementation of ideas rather than diktat o

Yet the key decision makers do not feel capable of redirecting this course of events in any significant way. They feel just as trapped as the rest of us in what often seems to be a race to the bottom.

Futurist Buckminster Fuller explained that it is very difficult to change and innovate what lies in the future: ‘You never change anything by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.’ This

If you stand inside a large corporation like Dominion and ask what kind of economy we need, the answers are about incremental change from the existing model.