Creator of Worlds
My 8 yo has never taken to Lego , something that always pricks at me. Thankfully, the Spock in me knows that you can’t force a kid to play with a particular toy, so I never push her on this. Just when I’d abandoned all hope, she took to this Android game called Multicraft . It’s like a very crude, digital version of Lego , and very limited in features since it’s a free game. Call me a geek, but once I saw the game allowed her to build (digital) structures like buildings and bridges, zoom in and out, and view objects from various perspectives, the engineer in me was happy. Good, I thought, she’s getting trained on using tools like CAD… Plus, you know how they say we might be living in a simulation and not even know of it? This might be her baby steps in creating such a simulated worlds… She’d save stuff she built and give each “world” (a term from the game) a name. Better that she be a creator of (digital) worlds, I thought, than her having “Now I am become Death, the des...