Neither seems to be inspired by the other, but share a lot of imagery and mechanics. Do they both owe a common precursor? Or is it the collective unconscious at work?
Neither seems to be inspired by the other, but share a lot of imagery and mechanics. Do they both owe a common precursor? Or is it the collective unconscious at work?
Remember that personal-computers, and therefore programming were just becoming significant, then…
Programming is labyrinthine…
It was part of the zeitgeist, back then
( so was the cult of impersonal-money, among other people, etc…
There wasn’t any “single” zeitgeist,
but rather different cultures each had their own, & coding is nothing, if not labyrinths of logic )