"Asia's race for space"
"India launches first moon mission"
The front page of Al Jazeera's news brings back an eerie memory of a war game i used to play as a kid - CIVILISATION.
Sid Mier probably had a foresight on the race of nations. In the game, the human player picks a nationality of her liking (eg. French, English, Aztecs, American...). The player competes with computer generated opponents of other nationalities. Each by turn races to gain the next piece of knowledge, the next technology, so as to produce the most lethal weopon, the most effective, glamorous and strongest cities.
To win the game, one has either to wipe out all the other nations, or to be the first to build a space craft.
15 years later, apparently, nations haven't got sick of the model of "success", "game over".
Way to go Sid!
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Sharon Chong
Sharon Chong
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