If screwing up damns you, expect that sourcerers are kept at a distance from anyone important. Quests seem like possible busywork to keep at least some of them from blowing up in town.
There's a lot of D&D players who don't want any magic other than simple magic weapons and armour contaminating their brawny or skillful character. Fighters and rogues have always been popular. The equivalent people in this world might just have a point about the dangers.
]]>As a metaphor for the way company/slow AIs treat human beings, sure, but it seems more likely to be a toy than a tool if taken literally.
]]>Off-topic I know but I thought some here would be interested.
]]>There's plenty of work being done on reducing headcount and the need for skilled workers in the business world and no reason to think that will stop. What's special about these skills in particular in 2070?
]]>Seeing that (and the threat they saw with their own eyes) may be enough to stop politicians taking his calls for a while though. The limits of money to influence politics were shown recently by Bloomberg in his own push to become the Democratic presidential nominee, and anyway Trump may want to siphon the funds he's raised off for his own use rather than spend them on politics. I have hopes that the Trumpkins will dwindle away into noisy insignificance rather than make a permanent mark on American politics.
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