Labels:text | screenshot | font | black and white | document OCR: a kid has trouble imagining himself ever living long enough to make it to adulthood, we have trouble imagining our culture developing past its present, childhood level. Admittedly, an apocalypse sounds better than a stage of civilization-wide adolescence, but this, too, will pass. What I'll attempt to show in this book is that the more frightening aspects of a non-apocalyptic future are being addressed today, and quite directly, by the most pop-cultural experiences of children and young adults. Whether it's the Power Rangers showing us how to accept co-evolution with technology, or a vampire role-playing game calling for us to accept the satanic beast in each of us, these new forms have the ability to assuage our worst fears, confirm our most optimistic scientific theories, and obliterate ...
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