MetaFilter posts tagged with speculative

Bricks from ashes

klangklangston — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:55:30 -0800

Superstruct: An alternate reality game of future survival from the woman who brought you I Love Bees. Starting soon.

speculative landscapes and radical reconstruction

salvia — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:48:44 -0800

An interview with Lebbeus Woods -- designer and illustrator of speculative futuristic landscapes and buildings. Woods just set up his own website, which has an amazing quantity of drawings, photographs, and text focusing on his lesser known projects [for those willing to deal with a frustrating flash interface and sound. It's better in IE than Firefox.] From his comments at a recent conference (transcript, summary with video) and the overview to his website, it appears he wants to start some conversations.

My name is Legion. You collapsed my probability distribution, prepare to die!

kandinski — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:15:49 -0800

The Crossing is a new FPS game where single-player and multiplayer modes meld in one. At any point, any Non-Player-Character might not be an NPC at all, but another Player. It is likely that, as in a game of tag, players will just take turns to be "it" like Agents in the Matrix, but... wouldn't it be great if we could all be "it" at the same time? Quantum Gaming might just be the way to model such a swarm of gamers. You can visualise the many-worlds interpretation of classical shooters in "Averaging Gradius". Greg Egan has already designed Quantum Soccer for you to check out how a probability distribution scoring scheme would work. And the "many-votes" implementation of Massively Multiplayer Pong proves the concept is viable, if difficult to pull out in higher abstractions than "ball meets paddle". Even bright-guy Richard Dawkins says Quantumg Gaming might be a good educational tool. Sure that, but, can we also make it fun?

An Earth Without People.

ShawnString — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:24:09 -0800

An Earth Without People. An interesting (and I am sure it will be debatable) article in the current issue of Scientific American. Personally, I have always liked Douglas Coupland's version too