General Mung Beans
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What's the most dystopian TL possible with a POD after January 1st 2006 and no nuclear war/global superplague/astroid strike etc.?
I'd think a greater Asian war which after running out of hi-tech weapons in the first few months/campaigns reverts to 'peoples war' with human waves of light infantry. Countries/regions not involved would have to struggle to keep tens/hundreds of millions of refugees from overrunning them.
Australia would have to mobilise just to survive, and that would suck.
I'd think a greater Asian war which after running out of hi-tech weapons in the first few months/campaigns reverts to 'peoples war' with human waves of light infantry. Countries/regions not involved would have to struggle to keep tens/hundreds of millions of refugees from overrunning them.
Australia would have to mobilise just to survive, and that would suck.
How about something SARS or Avian Bird Flu linked?
But that still violates the OP.
Now , if this is about getting a dystopic world within two centuries of 2006 , its far more doable.
Here's an idea : Pratical Genetic Engineering of humans suceeds wildly by the mid 21st centuries . Anyone who can afford to do so are out getting enhancements . Unfortunately , in the past 50 years , middle classes in many parts of the World have shrunk dramatically . Enhancements are hence only limited to the rich given the prohibitive cost of Genetic Engineering.
During this time , a Bio Tech company created by a biology PHD Graduate from MIT who did not kill himself as a 16 year old teenager in 2006 monopolizes the Genetic Enhancement Industry much as Microsoft does with computers today, only without an Apple to counterwieght it.
As a result , Genetic Engineering prices DOES not fall within a generation. Soon after , global warming and massive climatical upheavals lead to a further polarisation of the Rich and Poor. The flooding of Mumbai and Shanghai in 2074 triggered a global depression wiping out the Chinese and Indian Middle classes, as well as that in the rest of Asia and even the whole world. During these two decades, only Children of the rich can afford enhancements , say about 1-2 % of the Global Population.
As a result , sucess becomes more and more determined by birth - children of the rich and intelligent are likely to have their intellect, beauty and physique enhanced , making them more sucessful in life, along with their advantaged background.
Global Politics has shrunked into how American politics might look like if we had 8 terms of G.W. Bush policies and politics. As a result , nothing is done to remedy this intellectual inequity. Social mobility almost becomes non existent , and society stratifies into a permemant airstocracy.
After several Climatical wars, the World accidentally colaces into a few Super States, from the USAA ( United States of All America) , East Asian Union , India , EU ( Russia up to the Urals, with disputed borders with the Chinese ( East Asians ) along Siberia.
Plus , slightly smaller powers, like a smattering of African Blocks , Super Iran , Israel , Super Indonesia and Maybe the Southern Cone + Brazil and perhaps Japan . No small states are left.
In the chaos of the wars and climatical crisis , a Post-Industrial Neo Feudalism develops . The Invention of Agriculture skyscrapers makes cities self sufficient , while refugees increasingly are forced to swear some sort of binding contract with the Enhanced elites of the world . Since Humans don't like to share, the De Facto Global Aristocracy keeps prices of genetic enhancement deliberately high.
The Super States evolve into Despotic Monarchies or quasi- democratic Oglicarchies , or in some cases semi Juntaship dictatorships.
There you have it - a post apoclyptic , Cyberpunk Dystopia !
!!!!? I take it you have not read For All Time.wtf is up with ppl on bashing the bush administration!? its really beginning to get on my damn nerves!
i digress, the most dystopic TL is a massive tie between...
OTL & TL-191
in all seriousness
!!!!? I take it you have not read For All Time.
wtf is up with ppl on bashing the bush administration!? its really beginning to get on my damn nerves!
Well most probaly For All Time would be the most dystopian TL outthere but the POD is far too early for this.What's the most dystopian TL possible with a POD after January 1st 2006 and no nuclear war/global superplague/astroid strike etc.?