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Once this nightmare is over the US will no longer exist.
Do any intelligent people really think the world will continue improving ? I sure don't. Billionaires will destroy it.
The world hasn’t been improving. It’s tradeoffs all the way down. Hunter-gatherers have continually refused to live in “civilization”, even today.
Humanity is doomed. We evolved the ability and the motivation to cooperate, but with only a very narrow scope of "our people". We found that the best way to succeed was to manipulate, abuse, and kill anyone or any creature or any landscape outside of "our people" when the situation calls for it. The social order has not changed since 100,000 years ago, we just give the classes and the tribes new names. People are not evolved to understand a worldwide scale of society. So of course the first and best option when things get tough is to gather the spears, or these days, gather the guns and the bombs. It's remarkable we still have a world now that nuclear arms are available to any nation with the capital for it. But on the astronomical time scale we are still in the first moments following their development. I don't see how humanity makes it to "3,000 years after Christ" unless there is a tremendous worldwide shift in thinking.
The year is 2100. Decades have passed since the formation of the technations; corporate run countries in the place of where the US once stood.
To the west you have applestan and metadom; flanked on the right by both x-land and microsoftville. On the eastern side you have Amazonia, sharing a southern border with googleberg.
The actual populations of these countries is rather low; with most spare space instead used to build server farms for various artificial intelligence based weapons they use against one another.
All 6 send their mechanised armies inward, in a perpetual war for control of the Mojave desert; now uninhabitable due to the level of heat generated... It is the perfect location for thermal & solar based power generation; an ever increasingly hard resource to reliably acquire...
Don't stop. I was getting into it.
Snowcrash vibes. Not going to say it was a good book, or that it didn't have a few horrible scenes, but it did kickstart cyberpunk and visit a lot of the corporatized post America thoughts.