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A game that already knew this
Sid Meier’s Civilization locks Literature behind Writing. The Great Library behind Literature. On 6 August 2023 he called that insight into the stepping stones of actual civilizational growth.
Hard to pick a favorite. I tend to like shooters with a story, like Bioshock, Fallout, or Mass Effect, but also a big fan of Civ and Warcraft.
That game demonstrated outstanding insight into the stepping stones of actual civilizational growth
Read The Story of Civilization by Durant
You feel a prerequisite in your hands: some doors will not open until another door has.
In 2015, GamesBeat noticed the rhyme. The man who just told Reddit to treat knowledge as a semantic tree is also a Civ player. The two diagrams are the same shape.
If you have ever researched a tech you were not ready for, you already know why leaves need a trunk.
- Language & writingYou cannot have democracy without literacy. Elon’s own Civilization example is the prerequisite made folk.
- The tech treeSid Meier’s lock-and-key diagram of progress. The semantic tree’s playable twin.
- Games as modelsA good game is a compressed world. Civ, Kerbal, Mass Effect: toys that teach structure.