Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks

From the videogame known as Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, this is the secret project video for The Planetary Datalinks.

Secret project details:
Cost: 300
Prerequisite Technology: Cyberethics
Effect: You automatically discover any technology discovered by any three other factions.

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"

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Category:

Gaming

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• Sid
• Meier
• Alpha
• Centauri
• Secret
• Project
• Planetary
• Datalinks
• Cyber
• Ethics
• Technology
• Faction
• American
• Information
• Pravin
• Lal
• UN
• Declaration
• of
• Rights
• Firaxis

[FuryFlurry1]

SOPA

[MarshallBF]

Now understand this: this video is from 1999! No crisis, No terrorism doctrine. Yet, it predicts everything. The thing is, it actually doesn't predicts anything, it says something that will be always true. This is the true genius behind this game - using the brightest ideas of our world and packing them together in very natural way.

[Xan81]

@viperswhip what? You're reaching.

[viperswhip]

@Xan81 Same thing. You stifle creativity when you do not allow ideas to spread.

[evan13579b]

@Xan81

Which ignorant people?

[Xan81]

@FuryFlurry1 lol this is about information - not copyrights and fair-use. =\

[Xan81]

@hansbo11 Actually, a married man, I am. And I don't appreciate your fantasies. =\

[Xan81]

@evan13579b lmao I just come to read your posts... very funny stuff - I like how you're doing an impression of the ignorant people of this world... and you do it /so well/ :D

[deth2munkies]

And now Twitter censors itself voluntarily to drum up business in China and Egypt. Rapid slide indeed.

[hansbo11]

@Xan81 boy your time cant be worth much. either lonely troll or got trolled hard. -.-

[Foryn19]

It is so amazing that this game, and the concepts it explores, is still relevant 13 years after coming out.

[MrElvisNilsson]

@FuryFlurry1

My first recation as well. Just instantly thought of this, was hoping I could figgure out how to link it to Total Biscuit's video :P