Ethan Mollick shows Astra recreating Zork as 3D in VBA as meme timeline spins
emollick · x · 2026-09-05
Ethan Mollick quoted a joke about the community's meme timeline—Zork turned into 3D, Fortnite into text—and noted that Astra has already pulled off the next step: recreating such retro games inside VBA (Excel macros), keeping the "everything in a spreadsheet" meme alive.
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