Comment by aa-jv
Very interesting article, and quite fun for those of us with a penchant for 8-bit aesthetics and retro-computing roots.
One thing that came to mind while reading this, was: isn't this just a human digital manifestation of Mother Nature's desire to just evolve everything into a crab shape?
Think about the symmetry and function of various appendages of the space invader, and how - eventually, all space invaders just look like crabs.
Are we seeing some sort of confluence in the Matrix here?