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Creator of ‘Civilization’ Looks Back at One of the Longest Careers in the Industry
Sid Meier took players through war, famine and climate change. But he never predicted a global pandemic.
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Sid Meier has spent a lot of time thinking about major world events. The video game series he created, Civilization, is a grand tour through thousands of years of history, complete with war, famine and climate change. But the one thing Meier never predicted was Covid-19.
“I'm not sure we've ever had a pandemic in a Civilization game,” Meier says in a recent interview. “We're all in the midst of this experiment. We're not the scientists; we're the guinea pigs.”