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Technocracy: Reloaded

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236 pages, Hardcover

Published July 21, 2021

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August 17, 2021
Technocracy: Reloaded es víctima de Mago 20 Aniversario. No porque sea mejor o peor manual, sino porque ya el básico de 20 aniversario (y el posterior Libro de los Secretos) apenas deja nada por explorar, siendo un manual gargantuesco que prácticamente desplegaba todo el lore habido y por haber.

Con esto en mente, uno debe de ser consciente de lo que le puede pedir a este libro. Prácticamente no cuenta nada nuevo, sino que trata de extenderse un poco más en todo lo que se explica en el básico y el companion y busca hacerlo con su propia voz, la mayoría de veces desde el recurso de que los capítulos estén escritos "ingame" por personajes que pertenecen a la Tecnocracia. A mí esto no me parece mal, aunque hay alguna voz que me disgusta (y otras que me gustan).

Lo más interesante es el espacio que dedica a hablar de la vida en la Tecnocracia, del funcionamiento y de cómo se retuercen algunas de sus normas, y obviamente el lógico apartado de cacharros y juguetitos de la Unión. Me hubiera gustado que hablaran de cómo entienden cada Esfera (no sólo las propias como Datos), que pusieran más Procedimientos y ejemplos... pero ahí vuelve lo que ya he dicho: ya está en el básico de Mago 20.

En el fondo, un manual interesante que complementa al básico monstruoso pero que no supera en términos de ruptura a lo que significó la vieja Guía de la Tecnocracia de 1999.
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May 20, 2022
This book is overall...good. It just rubs me the wrong way. The book starts with a very jokey, Paranoia-esque tone that feels very off for Mage. Honestly, that's the thing about this book, there's a lot of good things, but it feels off in a bunch of ways. For example, putting Machine Learning under Iteration X instead of the New World Order is certainly a choice, but not one that makes sense to someone who knows machine learning and how closely tied it is to data science (this could also create an ItX/NWO rift/rivalry over AI approaches, adding potential stories that are just being ignored). There's other places that are just baffling, like getting approximately the same number of words about Control as about sexuality within the Union, followed by a bizarre set up regarding family life that would cause almost every actual human being to abandon the Union.

Overall, though, there's a lot of useful material, particularly on the Conventions and their Methodologies, some interesting Union projects around the world (with some oddities there as well), and especially if you don't have the old Guide to the Technocracy it's useful, though it does assume that you have the Revised Convention Books rather than standing on its own as part of the 20th Anniversary Edition.
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January 6, 2023
Eh... I mean, a reasonable effort was made to update the material. But the whole Technocracy concept is so rooted in a fairly naive, 1990s-tastic view of the world that the more you try and update it, the weaker Ascension's setting seems and the more the Seers of the Throne from Awakening seem like by far the better adversary faction. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordp...
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