Tomes of Magick: Technocracy: Iteration X

Adam and Terry discuss the sometimes over-the-top mechanical horror of first edition Technocracy: Iteration X. The Clockwork Convention gave us the unfeeling malevolent robots in the form of HIT Marks but what else can they bring to the table? To what extent was Iteration X just a response to the killer robot phase of the early 90s? How did the first convention to explicitly say it has non-Western origins get its start?

Show Notes

• Technocracy Assembled
• Technocracy: Progenitors
• Primal community sphere
• William Smith as a Tholidomide victim
• Interview with Matt Webb on how the Technocracy can never truly be the good side
• Harry Potter
• Terminator movie!
• Possible Easter Egg in the 1953 movie, Robot Monster
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Convention of the White Tower
• Exalted’s Autocthonia
• Psychohistory and the Foundation books
• The myth of Procrustes
• Taylorism
• “Blindsight”
• The Happiness Hypothesis
• Daoism and Confuscianism
• Anders Mage Page 2.0 on The Core

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