The Game by Alessandro Baricco

Artwork by Vicenza Di Maro

The Game tells how technology has evolved. It starts with table football and continues with the pinball machine until you get to the first digital revolution: Space Invaders, the first videogame. It is based on the displacement of a small ship that strikes the aliens and as in this game, so in real life we find ourselves faced with levels to overcome; and it is just like that it wanted to interpret the evolution of real life, following the rules of the videogame. With the next level we move to another era: Human-Keyboard-Monitor, a way of being physically in space and creating a connection between the world and the underworld. The evolution will continue with the first smartphone phones such as the Blackberry, compared to the time as a laptop until you get to the most innovative phone: the Iphone. A thin, small device that solved different problems like a game, this will end an era, but it is nothing more than a representation of a new beginning. And like any videogame that respects, this game will have a sequel, a new era, a THE GAME 2.0, that will arise new and extraordinary inventions of the digital and cultural world and it will contribute to combine even more these two matrix in the world in which we will live.