Your Millennial Dystopian Checklist!
ALREADY:
- World media controlled by a few massive conglomerates --- CHECK
- Universal surveillance --- CHECK, in a few places
- Cyber-warfare waged by ethnic separatists --- CHECK
- Futures markets in human bodies --- CHECK
- Privatization of the life cycle in the production of corporate snacks ---
CHECK
- Human ears grown on the backs of mice --- CHECK
NOT YET:
- Desktop eugenics ---
- Use of third-world human cortexes as cheap storage devices ---
- Scheming artificial intelligences ---
- Self-reproducing nanobugs reducing everything to mush ---
Send items for the Checklist to
<moore@santafe.edu>