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Charles Stross has pre-traumatic future shockJuly 23rd, 2007 |
Charlie’s Diary: Unpacking the Zeitgeist is a fun post about trying to explain the recent gold-farmers-dropping-gnomes incident to someone from 1977 — and pondering what that means for trying to envision what 2037 will be like.
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Might do better to just have them read “Anda’s Game“. (Me, I’m still waiting for the 20-line-per-mm monitor that was gathering dust on Mister Slippery’s desk in “True Names”.)
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1977 how Gnomes dropped from the sky in the shape of a URL advertisement in WoW. He unpacks 30 years of assumed knowledge (what is the internet, what is a PC, why do people play games dressed up as furry animals?). As Raph Koster noted this represents pre-traumatic stress disorder as we contemplate what this means for 2037. Think of the ingenuity and focus it took to pull this stunt off. The intellect behind it is creative, transgressive, technical, and funny – all at the same time! Where are we teaching these skills in today’s