This leads us to differentiate between high-technology exports with a low level of sophistication, and low-technology exports with a high level of sophistication.
Astronomy was the first natural science to reach a high level of sophistication and predictive ability, which it achieved already in the second half of the 1st millennium bce.
These reached a high level of sophistication in the later 16th century, stimulated by the presence of Italian dancing masters invited to the French court by Catherine de Médicis.
"What I love is the high level of sophistication of all of these cities," he said, "and as soon as you leave them you're on the moon — completely desolate landscape".
Nier does many different things at such a high level of sophistication and accessibility that I cannot think of another single game of recent years that more faithfully represents the sheer intellectual breadth of modern video games.
My notion of an intellectual is someone engaged with ideas at a high level of sophistication, commanding a philosophical tone and deep literary culture: Ortega y Gasset, say, or Albert Camus, or George Orwell.
These are visual ways of communicating on a very high level of sophistication, so well thought out that a 2-year-old will understand them, and be led by the pleasure of the experience to learn some very useful things about graphics and design for which she won't learn the $10 words until years later.
