The pair were inspired by the illustrated history books you might find on a middle-school library shelf, and by titles like Seven Cities of Gold (1984), a video game of Spanish conquest created by the designer Danielle Berry. Meier released Civilization thirty years ago this month, after developing it with Bruce Shelley, a veteran board-game designer. He’s also known for having his name on the box. Sid Meier is famous for creating the video game Civilization. In short, we live in a prison of space, time and thought.īut in the middle of this insignificant nothingness in which we live, in this green-blue-brown grain of sand, there is a being that wonders about the meaning of beings and things, Homo Sapiens-Sapiens, human-animal or god-animal, a bridge between animals and gods, the only known being who seeks to understand the universe, decipher the indecipherable, know the unknowable and find the truth. The prison of thought, which imprisons the human spirit and envelops it in sophistry and infinite mental torture. That only represents the “neighborhood” of the solar system, not to mention that our galaxy is one of a cluster of roughly 200 million galaxies and this is just an insignificant corner of the universe.īut this does not end here, apart from the prison of space and time, which encloses the material part of the human being, we also have a much more gigantic and terrifying prison. If we were able to get on a ship that travels approximately 8% of the speed of light (about 56 Million mi/h), it would take 50 years to reach Alpha Centauri, the closest star to our system (4.37 light years). On the temporal plane, if we imagine an ultra-fast movie of the galaxy, the life and death of the solar system is only a short event, life on earth would be barely perceptible and human life, a sigh, a lightning bolt between two dark eternities.
If we imagine our galaxy on a cosmic scale, the sun is a point close to the invisible in it, the earth is indistinguishable and we represent absolutely nothing.
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