"8 bit 'looks' and hardware constitutes - and 'looks like' - some optimum as far as computing is concerned"
... so sufficiently advanced systems will look like it to interface with us as a sort of lingua franca.-
AGIs. Alien probes. The works. They will all look to us like a C64 or NES would :)
The major religions have been beating that dead horse for a long time.
Please, vid.:
technically varvara isn't actually the nes
Now that's an interesting proposition (which, I do not contend mind you ...)
Make it a thousand rabbits. Make it a flotilla. Make it an armada ... :)
... in no small part perhaps because they remain isolated "pockets" of culture where - often - "progress" is slower or more controlled. Where idiosyncratic behavior becomes the "new" orthodoxy as behavior or culture "degrades".-
Where was it ... "Nightfall" (the novel) I think it was where a cult periodically saves civilization - by being the only ones that know how to handle the aftermath.-
PS. Which leads me - tangentially - to think that (maybe) the solution to (at least) some of our problems might someday be found in a cult :)
Who knows ...
> Absurd: So we ported everything over to the NES.
This was grand. The NES as a most effective "baseline" platform. Can totally see humanity sending out an NES emulator on Voyager VI as a last gasp.-