Saturday, July 26, 2008

Post-Apocalypse Singularity?

On Friday I discussed the idea of the sword & singularity genre. Following up on that, I thought I would bring up another idea - the post-apocalypse singularity.

Not too long ago I read a book by Ken MacLeod called "Newton's Wake". It's a pretty good sci-fi novel, but one idea in particular jumped out at me. Without spoiling the book for anyone, society in "Newton's Wake" is living in a post-singularity world. Society in "Newton's Wake" is rebuilding after the singularity came and went. Machines became aware, a war started, strange technological machines were built, and then the machines left. All of this happened in a matter of days or weeks. Imagine machine intelligences fighting each other, and humanity, while at the same time increasing in power exponentially. They hijacked systems to build new machines that humanity didn't understand. Then, for no apparent reason, they left. What they left behind was a world shattered by war, but one in which strange, magical technology was left behind.

I don't know about you, but this just screams "gaming" to me. The singularity could totally revitalize post-apocalypse gaming.

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