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...Xbox looked like something recovered from a fallen asteroid--an angry, evil asteroid--this looked like something created on planet Earth, albeit a near future, slightly utopian planet Earth. It definitely wasn't from planet Microsoft. "We knew we had finalized it when the research came back from Japan," Moore says. "We asked people, Who do you think designed this? And they said, 'This has to be from either Sony or Apple.' That was the seminal moment...
Ambitious as all this is, Wright and his brain trust have taken pains to make the game as fast and easy to run as possible. It will also be interactive: all players' species will coexist in the same galaxy, via the Internet. The game itself will decide, say, which planet to place them on, going by what will make the most interesting combinations. "Until now, we've used the computer as an automated opponent," says Wright. "Now we're trying to give it the intelligence to run the show." The result, Wright believes, will hook in an even wider circle...
...more energy than anyone else on the planet,” says Jeffrey B. Liebman, an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp of the average tourist. But before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make us see ordinary places in extraordinary ways, thereby revealing the new horizons that beckon right under our noses...
...Experimental travel has been slow to take root outside of a small circle of devotees. According to Latourex (or the Laboratory of Experimental Travel, established by Henry), there are currently 1,000 experimental travelers worldwide. But with the publication of the Lonely Planet book?which presents 40 of Henry's best experiments along with a potted history of his exploits?all that could change, so the streets may soon be full of people wearing horse heads (Horse Head Adventure) or riding penny-farthings (Anachronistic Travel...