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Techno Liberty
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In one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Captain and Ship's Doctor wind up captured. They are implanted with devices that telepathically link them, and make them nauseous if they get too far apart. And yet knowing each others' thoughts brought all kinds of friction between them. Is that us? Has our Information Age, with its social networks, become a threat to our very freedom?
It's On You
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In the movie "The American President," fictional President Andrew Shepard says, "America is hard. You gotta want it bad."
He's got a point.
Self-Responsibility
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The video game series "Assassin's Creed" has... well... a creed.
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
That creed is not as permissive as may seem at first glance. And I think we can all learn from it.