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| Saturday |
the Twenty-Third of March, 2002 |
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| Friday |
the Twenty-Second of March, 2002 |
| A sly and ultimately humbling subversion of the IF genre in LASH,
which sees you remotely controlling a post-apocalyptic salvage robot via
suspiciously familiar "GO NORTH, OPEN DOOR" commands. What starts as
an eerie but trivial new setting eventually coasts out into deeper and
more allegorical waters (which it would spoil to give much away of,
but there are some great game/dream metaphors in there, amongst other
things). It all builds neatly towards a memorable endgame, and is
skilfully written throughout, a lot of convincing research behind it. Interactive fiction at its most interactively fictional.
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| If you want your time capsule to last, forget stainless steel and
concrete and reach straight for the
cockroach
DNA. Bien-pensant VR guru Jaron Lanier half-seriously proposes the encoding
of newspaper archives into the insects' introns, breeding a vivid
"eight cubic feet" of archival cockroaches to release around Manhattan.
Cockroach scientists would be in for an uneasy surprise, twenty
million years later. [via Tyre]
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| Thursday |
the Twenty-First of March, 2002 |
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