Yes, and its name is Dyson.Dyson is a neogame. It comes from a crop of games that have appeared during this era of next-next-next generation gaming. It is a game with 2d minimalist graphics, game play that can be understood almost instantaneously, and controls that you pick up without thinking. It is the answer to the question; "Where are my 3d, hyper-realistic, life-within-a-glowing-box games?". Dyson states that we haven't taken into account what gaming technology really is. It is not just a multibillion dollar industry, a sculptor of our children's psyches, or an escape from the realities of everyday life. Gaming is a good allegory for the use of technology by humans on a whole.
An attack is underway.This could have exploded into a monster rant about corporations and irresponsible design. However that will wait for another post. The key theme to take away from Dyson is the idea, that almost no ideas, have been explored to date. We have a good grasp of our position in the universe. We can see possibilities in our knowledge, and in the awareness of just how small that knowledge is. This leads one to intuitively feel that, the accomplishments of the most intelligent primates on Earth, are a minuscule part of what they have left to do.
An asteroid has been conquered! Take that!Dyson's theme is the joy and comfort in what humans already have access to. Its knowing that if we stop trying so hard to get to the future, we can follow all the avenues that have been opened, but not yet explored. Dyson is to games what technology is to the future. The first car was electric. Let us look into what we've done, and take a break from advancing mechanically through the mists of time. After all, there is a staggering amount of work done by humans, so much data generated. There is no one capable of knowing it all.
Jeff Hogan is a Lt. Col. in the tree/seedling/asteroid army. He lives in space, with his dog.
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[Blogger's note: I will make pictures depicting levels of infinity later.]
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