Sunday, March 22, 2009
Here's my alternate ending. Instead of jumping 150,000 years ahead, we jump 150 years ahead. Almost all the Colonials' descendants are living in a single large city in what is now Iraq. They are a wealthy elite vastly outnumbered by the city's lower class residents, who are native to (this) Earth, destitute, illiterate, and capable of only very rudimentary speech. The city's deranged, vain leader, Emperor Gaius VII, has deepened the oppression of the Earth natives by conscripting a third of them to build a very tall tower that serves no purpose other than to glorify Gaius VII. Revolution is in the air...
Really though, I loved the finale, despite its flaws.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
More ambitious is Richard Florida's attempt to find "the best city for you" using eight multiple-choice questions.