the-game

     “Games are the most elevated form of investigation.” ~ Albert Einstein

I invite you to take the opportunity to be the architect of your future. Our game technology leads you to design a game for your life, an invented future, constructed with rules, principles, and a designed scoring system in which the stated purpose is to reach your designated possible future.

This really speaks to why gaming has become such an important part of futures thinking because the future really is like a game in a lot of key ways.

For one thing, every move that you make changes what the future could be. Just like there are more versions of chess and ways it could play out than there are atoms in the universe, there are infinitely many futures, but every decision we make today, every move we make just slightly changes that realm of possibility and moves the game or moves the future in a different direction.

The future is like a game because people are playing with different goals. Sometimes, they are on the same team as you and you’re moving towards the same objective, sometimes they have a different objective and they’re going to use strategies that work against your own, and you have to be able to really look at the entire space of people playing their own games and understand what their goals are and what their motivations are so that you can better anticipate their strategies and protect your own resources and your own goals while at least understanding
what’s motivating everybody else.

The most important reason that the future is like a game is that, if we investigate it together, if we all bring our creativity to it collaboratively, we can really come out massively more of those possibilities.

If I were to sit here and try to imagine all of the different ways the future of a particular technology might play out, I might have a few ideas, but if you come into the conversation and another player comes in and another player, we can get thousands, or tens of thousands, or millions of people gaming out consequences together, then we’re really going to fill in that potential game board of possibilities where we can discover things that would be impossible to discover alone.

 Based upon our design, this game will shape your choices and actions while life is turning out the way it does, the game will redesign you as a leader. The Game is not a trivial affair but a vehicle for ongoing re invention as a leader who makes the impossible happen. If you are the player in such a game you are completely committed to it, and willing to shift your way of being to match what the play requires. 

Results and scores are kept and you pay careful attention to them, but your attention is focused not on attaining the best score, but making sure that the game produces the right results. Instead your attention is creative.

Remember even though your game will not turn out the way it should, you will wholeheartedly play to win. The only way you can play any game authentically is to win, but you know in advance it will turn out the way it does. Your survival will not depend on winning. A championship tennis player doesn’t know if he or she will win each major tournament.