ManagerJosh
07-30-2007, 10:45 AM
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright (http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/128) demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces. Here Wright encourages users to create not households, as in The Sims, or cities, as in SimCity, but the entire universe, from single-celled life forms to galactic physics. While guiding us through his mesmerizing beta, Wright shares his thoughts on Montessori schools, Darwinian theory and long-term thinking, emphasizing, throughout, that Spore is not so much a game as an opportunity for discovery -- "an imagination amplifier."
"The reason why I make toys like this is because I think that if there is one difference I could possibly make in the world, is that I would like to give people somehow a little bit better calibration on long term thinking", Will said. "I think that most of the problems the world faces right now is the result of short term thinking and the fact that it is so hard for us to think 50, 100 or 1000 years out."
View the 18 Minute Talk (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146)
"The reason why I make toys like this is because I think that if there is one difference I could possibly make in the world, is that I would like to give people somehow a little bit better calibration on long term thinking", Will said. "I think that most of the problems the world faces right now is the result of short term thinking and the fact that it is so hard for us to think 50, 100 or 1000 years out."
View the 18 Minute Talk (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146)