At least now there's expert advice at the time capsule society at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, which houses the enormous "Crypt of Civilization". Its creator, Thornwell Jacobs, viewing 1940, when the crypt was built, as a midpoint in recorded history, decided it should be opened in 8113.
"Civilization," directed by Creator Edouard Salier, who will be screening a selection of short films at our Creators Project NY event.
Sid Meier, creator of Civilization, one of the most popular titles in the industry, started his own Maryland-based software studio, Firaxis, and scored his first big independent hit with the release last year of Gettysburg.
We're facing the biggest decisions we've ever faced as co-creators of Western civilization and American culture: will we take care of each other?
Some of the industry's best-known, name-above-the-title game designers (like Sid Meier, creator of the classic Civilization series) get a movie star's reception at trade shows and conventions.
Why they've chosen to go under a name more apt for an arts charity is probably best explained by their FAQ, which states that "White people are the creators of all worthwhile culture and civilization".
With exhibitions reflecting the country's changing society, said Mr. Wang, "we want to become the co-creators of a new culture, a new civilization".
This week on Technotopia I talk to Chris Boos, the creator of a bot that can play FreeCiv, a Civilization clone.
The Creator, after creating Aquaria, created a series of civilizations, making a new one in turn when each one was destroyed.
It was given expression in the complementary active-passive Yang-Yin principles and in Taoist poetry., The cosmic order was known as maat in Ancient Egypt and associated with the supreme creator god Ptah., The highly pragmatic technologies of early civilizations were intimately connected to their intuitive and spiritual insights.
Bostrom says if such simulations are being run, their creators are probably some form of super-intelligent post human civilization.
