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| | AlterNet: Media Monopoly, the Video Game |
 | | We need a new "God game" for the New Economy, where players instead of controling empires and natural resources, players use multinational corporations to capture as much "human mindshare" as possible. |
 | | You see, I've always been a big fan of the "God games," such as Sid Meier's Civilization and Microsoft's Age of Empires -- computer games wherein users players control entire military divisions, colonize continents, and are given the omnipresent perspective of world rulers. |
 | | The trouble with these games, it occurred to me, is that they're outdated, based as they are on the old economies, where power was determined by control of precious resources. |
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