20020

Wired
18,000 Years From Now, People Will Still Play Football
Not many sportswriters would think to publish science fiction. Bois is bashful in explaining why he thought to embark on this project in the first place...but what comes through in 20020 is [his] capacious creativity and prodigious Google Earth skills.

He tells his tales through a combination of written dialog, still images, and embedded videos. The stories are not interactive, like some past works of electronic literature, but they nevertheless make thorough use of their online medium.

The GIFs and videos of these fields are essential multimedia elements in his storytelling—they bring these absurd games, literally and figuratively, down to earth. And they are often more than just interesting or creative...Bois used Google Earth’s simulation of the planet’s rotation to record a genuinely beautiful sunrise from the vantage of UConn’s Husky Stadium.
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