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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
It's a little ridiculous to consider now, but if in 1985 you'd written a game about the distant year 2012 and things called iphones, smart TVs, a defunct Soviet Union, a-capitalist-in-all-but-name PRC, the US being in hock to said China, the literal vanishing of Japan as a world financial power, etc. would it have looked more or less plausible than the 40+ years-in-coming, seemingly inevitable war between the US and USSR.
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Heh. Pull out a copy of Cyberpunk 2020 and proceed to giggle at the projections therein.
(I think William Gibson once said something about the great failure of the cyberpunk movement was in imagining a future where the United States was gone and the Soviet Union was still there.)
- C.