Stewart Chiefet sits down with Chris Parker of Interplay to discuss the original Baldur’s Gate CRPG in this clip from a 1998 episode of The Computer Chronicles.
After suffering a potentially career-ending brain trauma, Cameron Cade receives a lifeline when his hero, legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar Isaiah White, offers to train Cam at Isaiah’s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam’s training accelerates, Isaiah’s charisma begins to curdle into something darker.
I’m currently watching Season 7, and it’s all new to me. Watching Christopher Atkins in those silly crop t-shirts was enough for me to stay away from it when it first aired. However, given it’s more than four decades ago, I can watch it and reminisce about the ‘80s:
D’hang! This is seems demonic, RQ. I have no doubt this technology already exists, but the real question is, who wants it implanted in their body? The idea seems messed up to me. It reminds me of this petition regarding AI being used as psychologists in Canada:
Ban AI from Acting as Counsellors/Therapists in Canada
People have to develop more discernment when it comes to what makes societies function because life is dynamic, not binary. Generally speaking, we seem to have a topical view of what makes life worth living such as material wealth and gain, when in fact, it’s being around others and having communities serve each other, not some implanted chip to escape reality.