A university graduation ceremony in Ottawa, Canada (2016) Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that has an excess supply of potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them … Read more
Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II and NES This site contains the original 1980s source code for the classic space game Elite, with every single line documented and (for the … Read more
Elite for VIC 20 Unofficial Port by Aleksi Eeben in 2025 [embedded content] VIC 20 version of the genre-defining 1984 classic and one of the first open-world space trading games if not the first, featuring exploration, combat, and a dynamic … Read more
Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge produce world-class engineers. Yet post-graduation, their trajectory is an economic tragedy – and a hidden arbitrage opportunity. The Stark Reality: Top London hardware engineer graduates: £30,000-£50,000 Silicon Valley equivalent: $150,000+ The reality for most graduates is … Read more
Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40th anniversary of the day the world first experienced Elite, the 3D space trading and combat game written by Ian Bell and David Braben, first on the BBC Microcomputer in conjunction with Acornsoft. … Read more
A recent discovery from old backups revealed something long forgotten: I really developed a version of Elite for…. that’s right… Emacs text editor. Update: Elite for EMACS is available as Docker container. It was over a decade ago, during 2001 … Read more
Elite Overproduction is a meme started by Peter Turchin. It goes something like; Turchin noted, … that the U.S. has far more lawyers, MBA holders, and millionaires per thousand population than it did 30 years ago. This is worrying because … Read more
Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure. … a cause for social instability, as those left out of power feel … Read more