This generation presents a menu of extraordinary business and civic opportunities for those who understand the implications and embrace a reasoned and realistic vision of the future.
While the author wrestles with the personal and social implications of embracing his inner geek, he passes through a series of worlds: rolling (dice) with Dungeons and Dragons players, reenacting with medieval re-enactors, battling LARPers (practitioners of Live-Action Role Playing) with foam swords, assuming the persona of a digital elf online, and tramping through Hobbit country in New Zealand.
The implication was a policy embraced and accepted by Saudi Arabia.
By the time the man returns to his apartment building, the sun is out; but the implication is that, having embraced the boy's viewpoint, he'd be happy either way.
Although the book focuses on writing and reading practices, the reader can easily picture the broader political and social implications of blindly embracing "the ideology of the user-friendly" that turns "all computing devices into appliances for the consumption of content," hermetically sealed boxes that are inoperable outside the parameters pre-set by the manufacturers.
But it does highlight how the ideal of "having a say in decisions that affect you" has implications that cut against policies embraced by many left-liberals.
Which is also to say that, for a long while, no one at the Times recognized the implications of the task they had embraced.
The triumph of Nate Silver's data-driven election forecasts bruised the egos of American journalists who'd clung to conventional tools like political pundits and vox-pops, but the implication is clear: embrace the world of data or face irrelevance.
Richard Bentall, a professor of psychology at the University of Manchester, embraced not only the clinical implications of Romme's research but also some of his political activism.
Quickly, responders within the Unified Command embraced the idea, even though its implications had barely been studied.
In a follow-up op-ed, Phillips declared, "If the Supreme Court embraced the gun lobby's extremist vision, the implications would literally be measured in lives".
