Will Wright and Brian Eno - Spore Metaverse


Complete video at: http://... Sims" designer Will Wright demonstrates the user-created "metaverse" from his latest game, "Spore," with additional commentary by musician Brian Eno.

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Will Wright and Brian Eno on "Playing with Time."

In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno give an intense clinic on the joys andtechniques of "generative" creation.

Back in the 1970s both speakers got hooked by cellular automata such as Conway's "Game of Life," where just a few simple rules could unleash profoundly unpredictable and infinitely varied dynamic patterns. Cellular automata were the secret ingredient of Wright'sgenre-busting computer game "SimCity" in 1989. Eno was additionally inspired by Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain," in which two identical 1.8 second tape loops beat against each other out of phase for a riveting 20 minutes. That idea led to Eno's "Music for Airports" (1978), and the genre he named "ambient music" was born.

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "slower/better" thinking. We hope to creatively foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years - The Long Now Foundaton







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Video Comments:
ZillasElite (November 27, 2008 at 6:10 am)
"oops" yep, how every war is started.


"the intelligence was wrong" XD
metaphysicalenigma (November 19, 2008 at 1:10 am)
i wonder if i could re-create man...but that would take away from the fun of creating your own creature i guess.
THEUNNAMEDNEWBIE (November 16, 2008 at 10:16 pm)
go to my channel for spore videos i got some in game vids and a few creature creations
Duudeer (November 13, 2008 at 2:56 pm)
can you land in to other planets?

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