[ExI] Huxley or Orwell - who got it right?

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
…

 

​>…A colleague of mine in the English dept. and I agreed - going to class and giving a presentation is Showtime!  You have to interest them and put on a show.  Sounds degrading, doesn't it?  Nah.​  Just doing what is necessary.  billw 

 

Ja.  As a content provider, a college professor is being required to compete against plenty of alternative means of mastering material.  Many of those alternatives are becoming most competent.

 

The Civilization game does a marvelous job of communicating a history meme so long underemphasized: culture is driven by technology.  In the Civilization battles, it is clear that he who gets the best technology soonest wins.  In that game the barbarians are a constant menace, but if a Civilization player invests in a few key technologies, he can get archery.  Then when he does, he can just stand back from the barbarians at a safe distance and twang em off.

 

What I am looking for now is a game that is analogous to Civilization but teaches actual history.

 

Anyone know?

 

spike

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20170204/9e659f01/attachment.html>