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Your Memories from 2019

Started by Spinachcat, January 29, 2009, 04:11:30 PM

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Spinachcat

January 29, 2009, 04:11:30 PM
I am going to be running a Ninjas & Superspies one-shot that takes place in 2019.   N&SS is all about martial arts, high tech espionage and illuminati style world conspiracies and diabolical secret societies.   So its James Bond meets badly dubbed Kung Fu movies!

Let's imagine its a few years past 2019.  

What do you remember from that year?  

What has the hot new technology?  

What were the big world events?  

What great crisis happened that year?  

What weird thing happened that year?

Soylent Green

#1
January 29, 2009, 05:35:35 PM
Okay let's see.

2019... we've had 10 years of no growth and massive unemployment. Those that are actually working are paying 70% of earnings in taxes. Oh yeah, official retirement age is now 85.
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January 29, 2009, 06:28:35 PM
I remember the first xCereJak - the old models that required a licensed physician for installation and only the rich could afford them...

Then CentraComm came out with that self-installed version for 3,999 and that was it, everyone had one.
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teckno72

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January 31, 2009, 12:56:46 AM
To the dismay of people all over the planet, 2019 marked the advent of the first nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India.  Massive death totals, radioactive fallout, and general chaos rule in both countries (but Pakistan, especially--as it's smaller in area).  A terrorist-led nuclear attack on Israel at virtually the same time as the conflagration in Pakistan/India was shot down by American satellites with particle beam weapons.  Israelis and Palestinians take to the streets in some of the most vicious fighting of the year.  These events, among others, make the Unite Nations much less effective in its peace-keeping role.

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January 31, 2009, 12:21:58 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;281057So its James Bond meets badly dubbed Kung Fu movies!

Maybe there's a device which combines speech recognition software & babelfish, which can translate speech in real time - but it doesn't synch up with lip movements, so...
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January 31, 2009, 12:55:25 PM
Remember how...

  • ...Michael Jackson had himself cryogenically frozen and nobody cared?
  • ...KFC sued McDonalds over their new "Colonel McChicken" character?
  • ...Mexico broke out in civil war after the government declared martial law during the water shortage?
  • ...the IRS came down on The Church Of Scientology for tax evasion, and all those actors and lawyers flipped out, calling 'persecution' and 'witch-hunt'--but then it turned out that they HAD been dodging the tax-man, and a bunch of 'em went to jail?
  • ...those people in that town in Kentucky claimed to have 'suffered mass hallucinations' after drinking Red Bull...and they all hallucinated the exact same thing?
  • ...the Biggest Loser movie won an Oscar?
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Spinachcat

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February 04, 2009, 06:26:43 PM
Good stuff!  Tell me more!
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