https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/07/06/a-faster-supercomputer-will-help-scientists-assess-the-risk-of-controlling-sunlight-00104815
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2023/07/06/a-faster-supercomputer-will-help-scientists-assess-the-risk-of-controlling-sunlight-00104815
I foresee a sky bleached white by sulfur dioxide in the 2030s
In CP2077 they dealt with agricultural collapse via skyscrapers full of hydroponics. Nobody wanted to pay for them in Africa, which experienced mass starvation.
In America a huge chunk of these towers are devoted to growing a super-wheat that is used to create CHOOH2, the branded gasoline replacement to fill in the gap left after peak oil and the subsequent collapse of the industry.
Most Americans are extremely food insecure and live off kibble and SCOP (single-cell organic protein)
Some of these things will happen in real life I think
I can totally see nearly mitigating human suffering but the holy car culture coming first in Burgerland.
People shit all over CP2077 as a game and for its rather poorly-presented plot, but the lore that's in there is fucking good. There's also accounts of two spontaneous worker rebellions on the first off-planet permanent space stations, wherein the executives didn't take into account that the workers outnumbered them and the security guards ten to one and they only had so many stun gun charges, and were subsequently captured by the workers, who graciously allowed them to depart the station unharmed directly out the airlock without EVA suits. The newscasts mention the nerve gas flooding that will occur later in the day to take care of the mutant rat/homeless population problem (same city department handles both). A worker's rights group in the beginning stages of planning a city-wide general strike are slaughtered by private security, sanctioned by the city to ensure that they were not able to cause millions of credits in potential profit loss. People get required to get augmented limbs installed to keep their job, and then get the limbs repossessed when the company makes shitty business decisions and shuts down.
Makes me pretty sure Mike Pondsmith is an anarchist, or at least was in his younger days. Lots of amazing shit in there if you dig around and read all the shards.
That's because most, if not all, of that lore was already there before CDPR showed up.
All CDPR added was their Witcherino-famed trademarks: "ego insert character that is punished by the plot rails if its player cares too much about something or someone other than maybe a waifu or a designated family figure" and "plot where the world sucks but attempts to improve it somewhat outside of immediate personal gain are naive and may even make it worse."
Those CDPR trademarks produced a game where unless your goal is to Become A Legend Of Night City(tm) a player may be disappointed by how little changes based upon their choices.
sounds like it would have made a good book but instead became a bad videogame
Blue skies for those with bazingatech AR/VR