Thursday, March 28, 2013

BioShock Infinite Creator Ken Levine Says He Doesn't Believe In Utopias (Including Peter Thiel's)

bioshock infiniteWhen my friends found out that I was going to interview Irrational Games' Ken Levine, who led the development of the acclaimed video game BioShock, as well as its just-released sequel BioShock Infinite, everyone said I had to ask him about the Seasteading Institute, a group that has been jokingly referred to as "BioShock for real." The institute was co-founded and funded by famed entrepreneur investor, and libertarian Peter Thiel, and it's looking to build communities at sea that are independent of any government. To gamers of a certain mindset, that seems pretty reminiscent of Rapture, the libertarian undersea community featured in BioShock. So I asked Levine what he thinks of the idea, and he said:

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