Entries from Dante Today (Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin) tagged with 'Technology'
"Dante's Conundrum" (2009)
"Dante, torn between heaven and hell and between good and evil, must collect the heavenly Soul Jewels to determine his place in the hereafter, along the way Demons will try and thwart Dante by destroying the landscape of purgatory...
"Three Lost Cantos From Dante's Inferno" Open Salon Blog
http://open.salon.com/blog/con_chapman/2009/02/15/three_lost_cantos_from_dantes_inferno XXXV: Cell-Phone Users The users of cell-phones in quiet places Have merited scorn from all classes and races. They talk to their pals with cocky assurance While you bury your head in your book with endurance. The gestures...
"Dante's Inferno" computer game (and future film?)
http://www.dantesinferno.com/home.action "Film rights for an Electronic Arts video game that hasn't been released yet were sold to Universal Pictures in an auction that attracted five movie studios, Variety reported. The movie rights for the game, whose working title Variety...
"Vita Nuova" and "Inferno": A compact operating system for building cross-platform distributed systems
http://www.vitanuova.com/company/index.html http://www.vitanuova.com/index.html People often ask where the names Plan 9, Inferno, and Vita Nuova originated. Allegedly, Rob Pike was reading Dante's Divine Comedy when the Computing Science Research Group at Bell Labs was working on Inferno. Inferno is named...
Planet Dante in "Orion's Arm"
http://www.orionsarm.com/worlds/Dante.html The Orion's Arm Universe Project (also known as OAUP, OA and Orion's Arm) is: * The next step in the evolution of science-fiction * A collective hard science fiction world building endeavor * A space opera * A...
Jennifer Strange, "Inspired by Dante: An Artist's Journey Through The Divine Comedy"
http://inspiredbydante.home.att.net/ Contributed by Jennifer Strange...
"The Literary Sources of Dungeons and Dragons" (roleplaying game) by Aardy R. DeVarque
A few references from Aardy R. DeVarque's essay: Planes: Nine Hells: Caina The name used for the first part of the ninth circle of Hell in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Canto XXXII. Dante describes it as a completely frozen lake...
"Devil May Cry" videogame
"The game revolves around P.I. (Private Investigator) Dante and his one-man devil hunting agency "Devil May Cry", which he runs in hopes of finding and killing the demons that killed his mother. Dante also has a twin brother named...
"The Lost" videogame, IGN
"The Lost is the story of Amanda Wright -- a waitress that has struck a deal with the devil to bring her daughter back from the dead. During her journey through hell, Amanda is granted the ability to transform...
"Afterlife" videogame, Lucas Arts, 1996
"As a semi-omnipotent being, you are responsible for laying out a functional heaven and hell to reward or punish the denizens of a strange planet. Afterlife represents one of the most unusual videogame concepts to ever make it to...
Neocommedia
"An immersive adaptation of Dante's Divine Comedy exploring the modern deity of Information." http://www.ikatun.com/neocommedia/#...
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