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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks

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What it is

The secret project cutscene for The Planetary Datalinks from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, featuring a quote about free information flow as the safeguard against tyranny.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Quoted in privacy and surveillance debates, and praised as some of the best science fiction writing in games.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “The special projects videos in that game are some of the best science fiction creative work ever made, IMO.”

    Alpha Centauri project videos as top sci-fi writing, with a prescient quote

    kyuudou, 2020-04 · Strong recommendation · in “The Collective Body: Russian experiments in life after death”

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Topics: alpha centauri, sid meier, secret projects, information freedom, sci-fi writing

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