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[./logicaland] is a project study for visualizing our world´s
complex economical, political and social systems.
[./logicaland] tries to engage people into strategies of raising
human sensibility and responsibility within the global networked
society. the challenge is to develop ideas, tools and visualizations
that fit the requirements of complex correlating systems and our
world's complex participative environment.
[./logicaland v0.1] participative global simulation
[./logicaland] v0.1 is the first attempt of a work in progress to
realize a prototype of a global simulation that is to be controlled
by a community of unlimited participants.
based on a scientific global world model of the mid-seventies *,
modified and hacked to fit our concepts, we developed a tool that
facilitates people to take part in a simulation, unlike tools in
the scientific field which are neither participative nor public.
the main idea is to provide a public web-based world-simulation
within a participative environment, where all users have equal influence
on the system. everyone with internet access should be able to participate
in
[./logicaland]. one user's influence on the system is minimal since
it is a fraction of all participants' actions. only if a lot of
users follow similar strategies, serious change can be achieved.
we want to invite users all over the world to take part in dealing
with global interrelationships by contributing to logicaland's simulation.
by now [./logicaland] is a prototype but it aims to turn out into
a worldwide "social game".
* [./logicaland]
is currently based on rw-3, a global world model developed in the
mid-1970´s by fred kile and arnold rabehl in wisconsin, USA.
global world models can be unterstood as "computer programs
that simulate the world in very broad, comprehensive manner. Geographically,
they encompass the entire world or at least a major portion of it.
More importantly, they explicitly link together a number of components
or aspects of our world such as economics, demographics, politics,
and the environment. Because of these traits, integrated global
models can be and are used as tools to help us understand processes
whose effects cross national borders and whose study crosses disciplinary
boundaries."
(pete brecke)
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