I want to tell you about a video game that was released in 2001 and accidentally wrote the most accurate prediction of the 2020s that I have ever encountered in any medium.
Not a think piece. Not an academic paper. Not a technology forecast from a Silicon Valley futurist with a Substack. A video game. About a man in a box sneaking past guards.
The game is Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. The developer is Hideo Kojima. And if you haven't played it, or if you played it when it came out and forgot what it was actually about underneath all the cardboard boxes and codec calls, I need you to sit with me for a few minutes.
Because I finished it recently and had to put the controller down and just stare at the wall for a while.
First, some context on Kojima
