A practical imperative is one outcome of humanity’s success as a technological species — to be wiser decision-makers, moving beyond competing for advantage toward collaborating to create the next stage of civilization and sustainability on Planet Earth.

Is Nature’s “world game” a game that we civilized humans can collaboratively play? Two seminal thinkers produced complementary breakthrough ideas concurrently. Buckminster Fuller propounded his ideas about synergy, design science, and World Game, while James Lovelock collected the data to formulate the Gaia Hypothesis. The Gaia Hypothesis and World Game fit together like hand and glove. Lovelock expressed the complexity of global environmental sustainability as a synergetic system, carefully tuned and self-regulating. Fuller proposed World Game as a way to address the system that human civilization has disrupted, to restore the balance of Earth as a synergetic system. Al Gore would later adopt that metaphor — Earth in the Balance.

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