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7: No Such Thing As The Loch Ness Monster

No Such Thing As A Fish

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There's no such thing as a fish, according to the Oxford dictionary of underwater life. Terry Pratchett has a computer game in his book which is called Journey to Alpha Centauri which takes over 3,000 years to play. How many hours of games are played per week on earth by humans if you tallied up over hours? I'll say a hundred million hundred million hours. The design of the year 2014 is competition for the best design things and this was the thing that I thought was most interesting But the idea is it's kind of an art installation and they're asking questions like What happens to digital things after you die if you die halfway through that game?

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