Nex is coming...
The GreaterThanGames Lab's alternate reality game Speculation has launched...
Here's a bit more background. And here's a snippet from the game's opening gambit, a mysterious interrogation transcript:
Q: ...?
A: Yes, that’s right. I started as a back-office worker. I was a BR. Basic Research. A retro title. Not very creative. But what do you expect from an organization that calls itself MetaCorp?Q: ...?
A: Info work in the least glam sense, some of it very close to the machine. Drudgery, grinding, budget reports, number crunching, maintenance functions, ้กต organization, low-level efficiency routines, triple-checks on stock trades. A BR is a neuron in MetaCorp’s reptilian brain. Don’t get me wrong, the system couldn’t run without back- office labor. You can’t think and feel and reason and f*** over billions of people for very long if you can’t breathe. You can’t conduct an interview with a terrorist if your core temperature isn’t being regulated, can you? Back-office work might not be considered particularly innovative but it’s integral to every processing cycle that sustains you.
Join the game - and look into the modern financial system's "reptilian brain"...
