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Thomas C. Schelling, then a professor of economics, led the delegation.
"I had the impression that he was very deeply affected by what we told him," says Schelling, who is currently Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. "I would say it was somewhat emotionally charged because they were all people who had considered him a friend and a colleague...
"He sank lower and lower in his chair, and his face lost color," Schelling recalls. "When we went out I thought we had a significant impact, but I never saw any evidence afterward."
The words on this page--indeed, words, period--are a product of non-zero-sumness. The game theorist Thomas Schelling has noted that in a purely zero-sum game there is no rational reason to communicate. If you see opposing coaches talking before a football game, they are probably talking...
What Schelling's point suggests is that the very existence of communication--among cells via hormones, among ants via pheromones, among people via words--is owing to the non-zero-sumness that pervades life. Evolution created pheromones and other information technologies because they let players of various kinds cooperate.