Will Wright discusses the game Spore at TED, and the role of Montessori schools and their use of toys and tools for creating playspaces for learning and to how to do the same thing for adults.
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright 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 (he went to a Montessori school in Atlanta), Darwinian theory and long-term thinking, emphasizing, throughout, that Spore is not so much a game as an opportunity for discovery — “an imagination amplifier.”
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