My predictions coming true already...
There have been so many things in the news lately that lay the foundations for the future that I'm creating in my novel that I have almost given up trying to document it all here... But I'm going to list a few and give links where I can.
NowPublic - a newsource where individuals can post their own newstories as they see it, complete with video and photos. This eliminates the middle man (sort of, because they do have an editorial staff) and allows people to get opinions and hopefully facts right from the eye witnesses that have experienced and seen what's happening. (Vloggers are the way of information and entertainment so that anyone can become famous or infamous)
Youtube - a place where anyone can upload anything they want and become famous. It's been out for a while but they just announced last week or two ago that it's possible to start paying people for content. A crucial componant to my novel because two are entertainment vloggers who make money off of the number of hits they get.
Quantum Computers - comptuers that can calculate massive ammounts of variable information, with one of the applications being DNA design. (Technology that is crucial to the chimera characters and designer people in my novel)
Quebec (A nation within a nation) issues unique edicts to immigrants - this is something not just happening in Quebec, but in the town I live in and others across America. Small places taking a larger step in limiting who can and who can't live there and what kind of behavior they will tolerate. As more and more individual towns step out with this sort of mentality, under the desparation to control what they fear the federal and state governments are ignoring, it will get more difficult to stop them. (In my novel cities are broken up into communes where borders are controlled by)
Military for hire - several independant units are being hired by the U.S. and other countries to help in wars to do things they can't or don't want to do. (In my novel state run militaries and police find it difficult to recruit on the salaries they can afford - taxes are voluntary in libertarian states and there's just no money in socialist countries. So they are replaced by independant mercinaries and security forces which protect those who pay them and who must follow certain guidelines to be certified - certification means legitimacy and legitimacy means cross-country colaboration and juristiction.)
And a few more that I've forgotten...
NowPublic - a newsource where individuals can post their own newstories as they see it, complete with video and photos. This eliminates the middle man (sort of, because they do have an editorial staff) and allows people to get opinions and hopefully facts right from the eye witnesses that have experienced and seen what's happening. (Vloggers are the way of information and entertainment so that anyone can become famous or infamous)
Youtube - a place where anyone can upload anything they want and become famous. It's been out for a while but they just announced last week or two ago that it's possible to start paying people for content. A crucial componant to my novel because two are entertainment vloggers who make money off of the number of hits they get.
Quantum Computers - comptuers that can calculate massive ammounts of variable information, with one of the applications being DNA design. (Technology that is crucial to the chimera characters and designer people in my novel)
Quebec (A nation within a nation) issues unique edicts to immigrants - this is something not just happening in Quebec, but in the town I live in and others across America. Small places taking a larger step in limiting who can and who can't live there and what kind of behavior they will tolerate. As more and more individual towns step out with this sort of mentality, under the desparation to control what they fear the federal and state governments are ignoring, it will get more difficult to stop them. (In my novel cities are broken up into communes where borders are controlled by)
Military for hire - several independant units are being hired by the U.S. and other countries to help in wars to do things they can't or don't want to do. (In my novel state run militaries and police find it difficult to recruit on the salaries they can afford - taxes are voluntary in libertarian states and there's just no money in socialist countries. So they are replaced by independant mercinaries and security forces which protect those who pay them and who must follow certain guidelines to be certified - certification means legitimacy and legitimacy means cross-country colaboration and juristiction.)
And a few more that I've forgotten...
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