This subtle change has had me rethink how I present my review before I used to label which system each listed article was for–and colour code it accordingly–but I’ve decided with this review to colour code each article’s title according to the system it’s covering (white is used to show that article isn’t geared to any single system). And I do have to admit it: once I’ve dragged my feet for a couple of weeks on a review, it becomes very difficult to motivate myself to get the thing done–I mean what’s the point of “reviewing” an issue that’s been out for several weeks and is on the cusp of being replaced by the newer issue?īeing that I haven’t had much chance to fully go through last month’s issue, I didn’t realise until I was well past the half-way mark of doing this month’s review (or whatever it is that you want to call my coverage of the magazine) that the magazine has undergone a subtle, yet fundamental change in the manner it’s organised: it has moved away from being a conglomeration of “articles” about each game system and moved towards being a publication comprised of themed, regularly occurring columns, with each column then focusing on a different game system (or what-have-you) each month. I have to admit, I was working on more important (dare I say exciting?) things when last month’s issue came out–as I talked about a little in my last post …not to mention that when I wasn’t too busy building a weekend 40k tournament or preparing for a bunch of Black Library authors coming to visit my store, I’ve also been busy trying to stay on top of the (at times) mountainous pile of paperwork that comes with running one’s own business. And we lose the ability to have that intimacy.I admit it: yes, I missed reviewing last month’s White Dwarf–though thanks to Games Workshop getting rid of printing the issue number on each month’s magazine, had I not bothered mentioning it here, it’s likely no one would have been any the wiser! That's all done digitally, through accouterments and gadgets that are controlled remotely, and things like that. Young people spend so much time communicating digitally, emotionally they're not getting those connections.Īnd relationships now are developing digitally to the point where you can have a full-blown relationship, even an intimate sexual relationship online, and never, never be in the presence of another person. And he just charged these groceries to his bank account.Īnd I'm not saying it's right wrong, good or bad, but I'm saying as we embrace and become so plugged into that technology, how does it change the way we think about ourselves and our humanness?Īnd the digital technology, you know, we are more connected than we've ever been and yet we feel more alone and more separate.
And I asked the cashier, I said, what did I just see? And he says, yeah, it's kind of weird, isn't it? And I said, what happened? He said he has an infrared tattoo in his wrist that is linked to his credit card and his bank account. He pushed up his sleeve and he rolled his sleeve over a scanner and checked out. And he went to pay for his groceries and I watched this happen. I was behind a man in line who had a lot of groceries. I live in a rural community, northern New Mexico. And if we don't know what it means, why would we give it away? Why would we relinquish this extraordinary capacity given no other form of life, without even knowing what it means to embrace that capacity? But this is just one example of how can we possibly make these kinds of decisions until we know what it means to be human.
They suspect there's a correlation and this is one of the places where they're really looking into this. They don't know if there is a correlation.
Sterility in men, men are becoming more sterile. And then when it's not, because they're very career-oriented, you don't have to worry about that.īut at the same time, beautiful example, look at what's happening. Many couples are opting for artificially intelligent robotic children, rather the conceiving their own children, because they get to care for them when it's convenient. Japan, you mentioned, not singling them out, but they are on the forefront. Yet they are part of the battle because they are willing to embrace this. There's a battle unfolding and many people don't know the battle even exists. So this conversation is an invitation just to be aware that it's more than just being able to talk to your computer through your mind. How much of this do we have the right to relinquish? How much do we choose to relinquish? But we can't even make those decisions if we don't know what it means to be human. Gregg Braden asks the question: do we want to relinquish our humanity, without even knowing what it means to embrace that capacity?
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