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sexbots, Japanese geek fashion, 500e, maglevs, floating solar farms, nuclear trains
Second decade of 21st century brought a new technological advance in robotics - appearance of sexbots. Hated by the social conservatives, banned in several countries in the world, they were perfectly fine for American and Soviet syndicalists.
Newest Japanese "geek fashion" from 2020s.
After Japanese lunar landing and manned Martian flyby, Japanese became more interested in new technologies, science fiction and transhumanism.
500e (2002) was the FIAT response to the oil crisis that came after Arabian Civil War. Cheaper than most of EVs in the world, 500e became a significant success in expansion of the corporation.
Japanese maglev trains provided serious alternative and threat to trains produced already in the world (2000s)
Japanese floating solar farms. (2010s)
Super trains in Combined Syndicates of America and Union of Soviets combined an enormous speed with the range of a standard freight train, all powered by the nuclear reactors. After 1986's Munich nuclear power plant, more and more people have resigned from using them and they were phased out.