EDITORS’ NOTE

Editors from top: Greta Kooy, Kaschelle Thiessen and Natalie Brzyski

The tides of change are rolling in: ready to jump?

Some change is just too big, it seems, with too much momentum, to get our minds and collective actions around. (Thinking of climate change here.) But on an everyday level, in the realms of technology, business, and the arts, and in meeting our primal needs, humans are nothing if resilient.

Our world doesn’t look anything like the sleek futuristic visions we see in movies, but the level of automation and customization is bringing us closer to it. Tattoos become passé because we’re inserting literal magnets into our fingertips to make ourselves distant cousins to Magneto from the X-Men. Our lives are more centered around our mental or physical health than ever, but to counter this we find asocial tactics to deal with everyday tasks: your groceries or favourite restaurant will come straight to your door without you having to speak to anyone (except to thank the delivery driver).

Fresh-faced and starry-eyed, we’re trying to pave a new way, but it comes at a price. We no longer look forward to a gold watch for long service; we hustle from gig to contract, and many of us will not afford retirement. The most intimate moments of our lives are surveilled, rated, and offered up for consumption by the masses. As the joke goes, we used to be concerned about the government wiretapping our phones; now we ask our wiretap what’s for dinner.

Tides magazine is the final product of a collective of this up-and-coming generation. Attempting to find the good, the hope and the potential in what’s to come, we asked ourselves how things used to be and investigated these sites of change.

The challenges presented to us by late-stage capitalism have forced us to face new realities. We are striving to create innovative solutions while hanging on to hope in the face of precarious prospects. It’s this next generation’s bookmark in a long history that is still being written.

Tides is our imperfect offering, a collection of stories exploring the ways we are confronting an uncertain future. ■

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Masa Takei

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Catherine Mullaly

EDITORS

Natalie Brzyski, Greta Kooy, Kaschelle Thiessen,

MANAGING EDITORS

Kurt Steigieder, John Tabbernor

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Helen Aikenhead

WRITERS

Helen Aikenhead, Carley England, Juliana Ferrante, Keith Jackson, Caroline Jirka, Greta Kooy, Danielle Lavis, Rachel Louise Moore, Mia Prokopetz, Sara Rabek, Sarah Rose, Alejandra Rivera, Sean Sallis-Lyon, Kurt Steigleder, John Tabbernor, Kaschell Thiessen, Brett Young

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Courtney Brice, Sara Rose

ILLUSTRATORS

Cynthia Tran Vo

ADVERTISING EDITOR

Brett Young

CONTRIBUTING INFOGRAPH DESIGNER:

Nova Mujagic

CONTRIBUTING COPY EDITORS + FACT CHECKING EDITORS

Elizabeth Kerschbaumer, Lacey Koop, Hanna McGalliard, Whitman Mclallen, Amanda Mitchell, Catherine Velazquez Duda, Jenna Young, Alexis Zygan

PUBLISHER

School of Communication Sue Dritmanis, Co-Chair sdritman@capilanou.ca Tides is published once a year by the students in CMNS 490, Group Project in Publishing, a course in the Bachelor of Communication Studies degree at Capilano University, 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V7J 3H5. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited.