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The Livermore bulb only has a small part, but this reminded me of the story 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future [0]. It's a fun science fiction st
by kej 5y ago
The Livermore bulb only has a small part, but this reminded me of the story 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future [0]. It's a fun science fiction story that is also a great example of web storytelling.
[0] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
- kibwen 5y ago17776 is the most important speculative fiction that I've read in the past decade. Don't be turned off by the eye-melting lo-fi hypermedia aesthetic, or the fact that the framing narrative is ostensibly about football, hosted on a sports website, and written by a sportswriter (all of whose work is brilliant, BTW, even if you don't follow sports). As absurdly silly as the premise is, it's quietly a thought-provoking treatment on how humans adapt to post-scarcity and utopia, and changed how I view the human relationship to modern video games. There's also (the first half of) a sequel, 20020: https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21410129/20020/ https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21410129/20020/
- kingcharles 5y agoWTF. I DON'T EVEN. I have no idea what I just experienced. My PC fan spooled up to max speed when I clicked on the link and everything went all 2001 Entering The Monolith on me. I panicked, but I stuck with it.
- mlok 5y agoWow !! This is amazing. My last comment on HN was 5 days ago when I threw a bottle to the sea for a website I saw years ago : a story told in a calendar. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29009014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29009014 And there it is !!! I find it again here thanks to you and your comment. (I was not much interested in this story so I was about to leave and I just had a quick look at the first comment : yours) This is an incredible luck ! Thank you very much !