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

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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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[Jan Remsa]

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.

[FuryFlurry1]

SOPA

[KiljiArslan]

Even better when it was released the Liberty Island Mission shows the Two Towers Missing. (To save disc space.) When asked after the release the designers replied with something they thought was unbelievable. "The towers were destroyed in a Terrorist attack".

[Vermoin]

The Peacekeepers did 9/11.

[DeftCrowMk3]

Those bootsteps. Such a minimalistic, and yet powerful symbol.

[NightfallGemini]

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

That's the most poignant thing I've read in a short while.

[FalconRS]

It's same shock after years of playing Deus Ex. In Deus Ex was destroyed Statue of Liberty and WTC by terrorists, and whole future is about war with terror used as an excuse for governments to control own citizens. Also just year or such before all of this stuff really started.

[Amari Ismyname]

TPP

[TheAidsbot]

NDAA

[HateMagus]

It's futurism at its best. They did much of this very, very well.

[pr0nr0kc]

Yes, you do. We all do.