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RUSSIAN COAST | № 2/9 2022 МНЕНИЕ | OPINION

TECHNOLOGY Here’s one more point that was not so session is $ 150‑200 – just like two years of
ENG obvious 10 years ago, but now intellectuals high‑speed internet.
FOR THE POOR
By the way, many large companies are on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean discuss it: The same can be said about all kinds
already overturning the budgets designed digital technologies are technologies for the of strategic games. Does anyone really
for bloggers ‑ the pendulum has swung ... poor. This is true! A couple of years ago, think that a successful Civilization or Age of
the other way. Senseless “LOLs” and the New York Times in its Sunday Review Empires player will be an effective public
philosophizings, designed to demonstrate directly pointed out that human‑to‑human administrator? The digital world gives us
the complexity of the inner world of the contacts are becoming an element of luxury the illusion of development, yet picking up
author (or authoress), are no longer in trend. consumption. And those who do not have Horcruxes, and moving from level to level
CONTENT is needed, but content does enough money for it may enjoy the digital do not guarantee any social success. The
not arise by itself. And then it turned out imitation. Indeed, a huge part of Digital outcome is rather the opposite. The exception
that those who used to know how to make world is the so‑called “simulators”, that is, is professional gamers, but they essentially
a proper content before no longer exist. surrogates, inferior substitutes for something. just learned to sell their skills, of pressing a set
Someone became a “visualist” and lost their Computer games undoubtedly gave lots of of keys and clicking a mouse – quite specific
qualifications, someone left the profession emotions to people of different ages and skills, which are not in demand anywhere
due to the closure of Kukuiski Komsomolets genders. Some of these emotions would not except the narrow world of computer games.
mentioned above, since now it is made by have been available in any other way! You Also, two years of quarantine restrictions
two bloggers in their cell phones! If you want can’t ride a dragon or cast a fireball in real have proved that online education is not as
to be popular on the Web ‑ you have to be world! But do you really think that you can effective as futurologists thought 10 years
a freak! There are some rare exceptions like learn how to drive a real combat vehicle ago. Lectures in Zoom cause cognitive
Dud or Nevzorov, but there are only a few playing World of Tanks? Actually, rides problems, teachers are talking more and
of them. on real tanks (at least in Russia) are quite more that students cannot comprehend
available. Although a cost of a forty‑minute all the materials without live contact. The

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