A technical guide to the future.
Like many environmental scientists, early exposure to nature sparked my interest in the field. But so did the 1990 video game SimEarth , game studio Maxis's first release after SimCity . SimEarth was more than mere entertainment, however. It was Maxis co-founder Will Wright’s effort to disseminate
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