I love TED Talks. This is what, when I first heard of the internet, and imagined what great changes it would make in our lives and to the social structure, I thought it would be; a forum for great ideas to be presented, launched into the cyberverse where they can be debated,
Playing for Peace
rejected, amended, expanded, tossed back and forth a few times, polished up until they shine and thus, solutions would be found for every problem that plagues mankind and we could all live lives of abundance, prosperity and peace.
TED Talks is halfway there. Certainly, great ideas get presented. This is a talk by an elementary school teacher named John Hunter, which I highly recommend. He talks about a game he invented, the World Peace Game.
It’s a cool game. Different teams of students have to run different countries, and they only win if ALL the countries make a profit. They have to negotiate something like 50 different situations among them, which is a more complex task than actual international negotiators undertake. It’s pretty brilliant.
However, the person writing the article about this talk said (accurately) “One can see that this World Peace Game is not very realistic, nor is it meant to be.”
Why not? Why not play with actual world states and their actual stats. Deal with real resources and real technology. Show it to adults. Put it on the internet and let people start playing. The game will end when we have developed accurate, realistic solutions to all the world’s problems.
It can be done. Someday soon, it will be.
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