Eduardo Robert Vega

"Upgrade" was inspired by my fascination with psycholinguistics, and in particular the Meme theory of Richard Dawkins. I wanted to use narrative to show how powerful language is in shaping our thoughts, and explore the possibility that some of those ideas we think of as ours, as Dawkins suggests, are in fact using us to survive and multiply. This led me to crash painfully onto multiple rough surfaces. Turns out that getting out of the box created by talking about the box you're trying to get out of is a bit like tying your shoes together while running. It makes more sense, of course, when aliens much smarter than us do it, even if they bungle up a bit.