Brave New Pong

"Evolution and capitalism have brought us to the point where it’s possible to propel ourselves out our current state of affairs. We're intelligent enough now that we don’t need the randomness of a competitive system. We can program randomness. Things that used to be competitive games should now be cooperative games, or even non-games.

The world is no longer made up of unpredictable systems separated by incommunicable distances. By using computer models to produce what we want and distribute it fairly, the age old game of producing for production's sake can come to an end. Humans have tried organizing themselves in more equitable arrangements in the past, but these systems were ultimately run by other humans. In the new world we will be able to relax and let technology do the job. The pong ball will never fall off the table again!" (Monochrom)

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[Matteo L]

Controllando quanto pubblicità ci fosse in giro della mostra MILANOPOLI che inaugura domani in NABA (qui pressr.http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/fpressrelease.pl?id=1210255010&day=)
mi sono imbattuto in un tuo vecchio blog dove Milanopoli era un'idea per una guida.
Visto il caso che mi ha portato al tuo blog direi che sei di diritto invitato alla mostra.
Ti aspettiamo!

[matteo]

Cool. Grazie per l'invito. Saro' con voi spiritualmente dato che vivo a San Francisco. Buon divertimento!