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AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

Alright, since I once found this meme, a while ago, I've thought a bit about doing either lists or rundowns for the sixteen scenarios in it. Given the absurdity, I've decided on rundowns since you can fit more insane shit in that.

Future One: Doggerland Ascendant Whimsy Enlightenment

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Fair Court of the Isles of Avalon and Albion, and Northern Brasil
In the year of our Lord 2026
In the Third Year of the Return
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Well. I can't believe it. The economy fell apart and then the Fair Folk came back. They existed? How?

The Faerie Court
Queen Titania: All hail the Queen! Now all Brits can return to singing "God Save the Queen" after a few years of mumbling "Qu-ing". Of course, she doesn't much like "God", so we'll probably go back to mumbling some part of the first line. She has easily dismissed any concerns of tyranny as "not for mere mortals to concern about". Regarding Oberon, she only scowls at that name, mandating that it not be mentioned. If you ask Puck, he'll say something like "oh, what fools those immortals be!" and not really be helpful. Wow, Shakespeare really did get his twat nature down huh.
King Charles: The Queen is very amused at the latest antics of her newest pet. And consort? Not sure how the whole Titania going "keep regarding that mortal as your King for all I care, as long as I remain the Queen" works there. Dual rule? But Titania has all the power...
Puck: Is he our Prime Minister? Or merely the court jester? Titania doesn't even bother to clarify, but Puck does seem to be her main point man. The Parliament is still around, but most of the time it's just Puck making lots of jokes and making MPs have donkey heads when he's bored.

Mere Mortals
Labour Party: Keir Starmer by rights should be Prime Minister, but every time he brings it up to the King, he shrugs. And every time he brings it up to Titania, she yawns and dismisses him almost as if he was a fly. And then Puck comes in and messes things up. Starmer has essentially been de facto Prime Minister, but there's no way he can manage the cabinet when the Fair Folk loves messing around with him and his pseudo-government.
Conservative and Unionist Party: The election [in which they only won a hundred seats] was almost an afterthought really. Badenoch is leader, but the party is horribly split on if it should bother to be in Parliament with the 'illegitimate' faerie coup. The Express has been very against Titania from the beginning, calling her rule that of the 'woketatorship'. The latest anger-filled 'scandal' is that the Fair Folk has been known to change people's bodies. "TRANS FAIRIES?" splash all the tabloid frontpages. I swear, they make less sense than the Fair Folk...
Liberal Democrats: Ed Davey is really put out by the fact that there is no longer any reliable polling. YouGov presently has Lib Dems on 97%, Ipsos has them on 1% and somehow Survation has them on negative seven percent, and everyone knows it's because the Fair Folk loves messing with polls to mock the politicians for daring to want to know stuff in neat numbers.
Scottish National Party: Ever since Nicola Sturgeon was turned into a fish, Scotland has never been the same.
 
Turquoise Blue said:
Alright, since I once found this meme, a while ago, I've thought a bit about doing either lists or rundowns for the sixteen scenarios in it. Given the absurdity, I've decided on rundowns since you can fit more insane shit in that.

Future One: Doggerland Ascendant Whimsy Enlightenment

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Fair Court of the Isles of Avalon and Albion, and Northern Brasil
In the year of our Lord 2026
In the Third Year of the Return
​
Well. I can't believe it. The economy fell apart and then the Fair Folk came back. They existed? How?

The Faerie Court
Queen Titania: All hail the Queen! Now all Brits can return to singing "God Save the Queen" after a few years of mumbling "Qu-ing". Of course, she doesn't much like "God", so we'll probably go back to mumbling some part of the first line. She has easily dismissed any concerns of tyranny as "not for mere mortals to concern about". Regarding Oberon, she only scowls at that name, mandating that it not be mentioned. If you ask Puck, he'll say something like "oh, what fools those immortals be!" and not really be helpful. Wow, Shakespeare really did get his twat nature down huh.
King Charles: The Queen is very amused at the latest antics of her newest pet. And consort? Not sure how the whole Titania going "keep regarding that mortal as your King for all I care, as long as I remain the Queen" works there. Dual rule? But Titania has all the power...
Puck: Is he our Prime Minister? Or merely the court jester? Titania doesn't even bother to clarify, but Puck does seem to be her main point man. The Parliament is still around, but most of the time it's just Puck making lots of jokes and making MPs have donkey heads when he's bored.

Mere Mortals
Labour Party: Keir Starmer by rights should be Prime Minister, but every time he brings it up to the King, he shrugs. And every time he brings it up to Titania, she yawns and dismisses him almost as if he was a fly. And then Puck comes in and messes things up. Starmer has essentially been de facto Prime Minister, but there's no way he can manage the cabinet when the Fair Folk loves messing around with him and his pseudo-government.
Conservative and Unionist Party: The election [in which they only won a hundred seats] was almost an afterthought really. Badenoch is leader, but the party is horribly split on if it should bother to be in Parliament with the 'illegitimate' faerie coup. The Express has been very against Titania from the beginning, calling her rule that of the 'woketatorship'. The latest anger-filled 'scandal' is that the Fair Folk has been known to change people's bodies. "TRANS FAIRIES?" splash all the tabloid frontpages. I swear, they make less sense than the Fair Folk...
Liberal Democrats: Ed Davey is really put out by the fact that there is no longer any reliable polling. YouGov presently has Lib Dems on 97%, Ipsos has them on 1% and somehow Survation has them on negative seven percent, and everyone knows it's because the Fair Folk loves messing with polls to mock the politicians for daring to want to know stuff in neat numbers.
Scottish National Party: Ever since Nicola Sturgeon was turned into a fish, Scotland has never been the same.
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Does Titania actually do anything or is it just Situationism with British Characteristics?
 
The Sixteen Futures of Britain
Original Meme
Future One: Doggerland Ascendant Whimsy Enlightenment

Future Two: King Charles Vanuatan Loyalist Neo-Absolutist Coup

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
in the 2027th year of the Common Era
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Okay okay. Maybe we shouldn't have cut the spending for the Army or the coppers under the Tories. In retrospect, it made it trivially easy for a coup by private interests. Really, the most surprising thing is that the coup isn't a PMC. Well, technically it is, but you know, when it's a self-coup...

The King, His Government Policies and His 'Special Forces'
King Charles: Really, we should have expected a King Charles to try seizing power. Turns out all those movies, books, what have you, were accurate all along. Now he holds more power than any monarch has since, the Magna Carta was imposed?
- Radical Environmentalism: The Greens are in power, Sian Berry is now PM, but who thinks of the PM as having any real power? She's just resigned to implementing whatever green bills the King orders. Of course, I hear that Hallam bloke has the King's ear somehow. Concerning.
- Traditional Architecture: The "Poundburisation" of Britain continues apace. Lots of abhorrent modern buildings are rebuilt in a traditional architecture style. The youth love the King because a key part of his régime is that he builds more homes. But traditional-looking ones. The King's Own Society has swollen, while faith in democracy [always weak] is dead with young people as they cheer on renewed autocracy. Oh dear.
- Multifaith Politics: Apparently our good King has appointed lots of Islamic clerics and even an Orthodox bishop to the House of Lords. This has caused the Express [promptly banned] to condemn the King as "WOKIE KING CHARLIE" and imply that he secretly converted to Islam.
- Absolute Monarchism: Underlying all those policies is one belief - that the King should lead. Parliament was ran by the elite for the elite. The King, out of the love for his people, stepped in and ensured a true people's government, for all people. Or at least that's what his rabid followers claim.
The King's Men: The PMC made up of Vanuatu people who ensured his successful self-coup of course wants a slice of the pie in the new régime. And the King provides. Many of the men who fought the Battle of Westminster were granted medals, the leaders peerages, and they all are now making up the bulwark of the King's 'Special Forces'. Do not mess with the 'Special Forces'. They are firmly in charge.

The Parliamentary 'Opposition'
Plaid Cymru: Some murmur that in the 'Royal Parliament', why is Plaid Cymru still around when literally every other party of significance left or was purged? The rumours is that the King 'felt sympathy' to a party 'he once was aligned to'. Wait. Does that mean George Thomas was right? It certainly would explain why the Senedd is around still, even if mandated to be filled with Greens and Plaid Cymru in a permanent coalition.

The Extra-Parliamentary Opposition
Conservative and Unionist Party: Currently based in America as the King's Own Society [not stopped by the Special Forces mind] ransack the wealthy houses for anything to sell off. Attempts to appeal to the King gets a stony response - that he doesn't care about the old consumerist elite. Of course, the King has roundly criticised some of his followers for 'destroying priceless artefacts' and there's a bill being pushed in the Commons to 'enable all artefacts considered of historical worth to pass into royal ownership if deemed necessary'. Fox News in America is calling it communism.
Labour Party: Headless really. Since the youth went all eco-autocratic, who cares about Socialism? Turns out a lot of that high support was based in the whole 'Tories keep fucking over the youth'. Now the new government, the King, provides, and they gladly abandon Labour. Currently Keir Starmer is in Washington, trying to appeal to Joe Biden over ice cream for intervention and getting really irritated that Biden calls him 'Jack'.
Liberal Democrats: Instead of being in Washington, they're in Brussels, but trying to do the same thing as Labour. And is having as much success as Labour. At least Ed Davey doesn't have to eat a sickening amount of ice cream. Small mercies.
Scottish National Party: Does not exist any longer.
 
By-elections for the Rozvi Parliament

From the Daily Mail, Kimberley, Republic of South West Africa.

Two by elections are to be held next week in the Rozvi state, on 21 February 2018

Buchwa North
Called following the death of the elderly Munashe Moyo, who has held the constituency for nearly half a century. The Mwarian Socialist was a fixture of the Vashandi [1] front bench for much of his career- including two stints on the Dare as Comptroller of Royal Messages, and later as Minister of Technology, but spent the last decade on the backbenches. He was the grandson of Ziyapapa Moyo, one of the greater prime ministers of the pre parliamentary era.

His hopeful replacement, Langton Mukanganwa, is much more aligned with the current Vashandi leadership, and teaches public administration at Naletale University.

The Vatsigiri [2] have never won this constituency (and rarely any others in this old mining town), but are hoping that the blandness of Mukanganwa will contrast with their celebrity candidate, the footballer Brighton Hove [3].

The Christian Democrats[4] are fielding Thomas Khumalo, who is their provincial leader in Buchwa, and an experienced politician.

On balance, the strong campaign and high profile candidates put up by the Vatsigiri and the CD are likely to split the vote, making any chance of dislodging the Vashandi, despite their uninteresting candidate.

[1] Workers Party, your typical union-linked social democrat to socialist party
[2] Loyalist Party, conservative, pro monarchy, supported by much of the aristocracy (with notable exceptions like Munashe Moyo)
[3] Hove is one of the commonest names in that part of Zimbabwe, and Brighton is a common first name. What d'you mean you see what I did?
[4] Conservative, explicitly Christian, unlike the other two main parties which have both prominent Mwarians and prominent Christians among their leadership. Their main stronghold is the southwestern Ndebele majority districts
 
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Penhalonga East
Vatsigiri member Horatio Mpofu resigned three months ago after the exposure of a sex scandal. As the family court imposed a mhosvha period of 6 months[1], he cannot stand again, unlike one of the parliamentarians from his party last year. The Vatsigiri are definitely happy with this, and hoping that their devout Mwarian candidate, Hlupekile Dhlamini will wipe away memories of Mpofu's excesses. Dhlamini is a prominent businesswoman in the town.

The Vashandi are fielding their long term candidate for this seat, Fletcher Ncube. A leader in the Miners Union, Ncube worked much of his younger life in the bauxite mines in this constituency, and the gold mines of Penhalonga West.

The Manica Party deputy leader has moved from Rusape to contest this seat. Simbarashe Makoni clearly sees a chance for the regionalist party, and although they've historically come third here, they hold one on the other Penhalonga constituencies.

This seat is a 3 way marginal, and voters disgusted with Mpofu may push the Vatsigiri out. It's going to be a question whether Ncube's long history in the constituency or Makoni's greater profile gives the edge, especially among periurban swing voters.

The CD don't generally contest Penhalonga, as the Manica cities remain strongly Mwarian to mildly agnostic, and this by-election is not different than usual.

[1] Period of withdrawal from public life following disgrace. Not a thing OTL
 
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Callan said:
The Kaiserabwesenheit (literally Kaiser's Absence),
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German Federal Election, 2021:

Anbruch: Lasker für Deutschland - 279 - 44.6%
Zentrum - 160 - 31.0%​
ReichsPartei - 60 - 8.1%​
National - 39 - 5.5%​

Anschluss Deutschland - 181 - 37.6%
SPD - 124 - 23.0%​
UDF - 31 - 6.8%​
Waldersee List - 26 - 7.8%​

ArbeitsAllianz - 30 - 9.1%
Polish People's - 4 - 2.3%
Wohnbar - 1 - 3.2%
Independents - 2 - N/A

Anbruch Allianz
Zentrum - The royal budget scandal is going so great it's now got its own name, it's the SchlossLoch. The government now can't account for DM 500,000,000 set aside for the coronation. Great start for our new Kaiser. No, no-one in the treasury will be resigning. Especially not Oskar Dönhoff. If we start asking questions about missing money now we might start asking what exactly happened to all those Vergeltung missiles we sent over to Malaya. Meanwhile the Chancellor has promised answers. Will we get them? I think we'll get Wilhelm V's coroner's report first.​
ReichsPartei - Turns out uniting Europe into a political union means the same number of people outside of it getting into Europe. Too many people are still immigrating from Egypt and Tanzania and Namibië instead of Poland and Ireland So Martin Ross will be presenting a petition to the Verband. Remember when this lot did street marches?​
National - Maria Alnbach is threatening "consequences" for the coalition if the coronation budget and the Malayan Intervention strategies aren't properly clarified. It's very cute when the Nationals pretend the Eastern War didn't happen and they still win 40% at every election.​

Anschluss Deutschland
SPD - Emma Lange-Yılmaz is still the frontrunner to win the leadership at the next party congress but now there's talk of bringing Ralph Jacoby out of retirement. On the basis that while he was never actually a Social Democrat unlike EYI he technically never lost to Lasker and doesn't think we can keep occupying half of Malaya literally forever. He'd get my vote.​
UDF - Stefan Radwitz's congress speech was really good? Turns out if you admit that the last election campaign was shit and the government's massively corrupt liberals lap it up. RadwitzMania is finally taking off on the Memex after only 15 years leading the UDF. They might even crack 10% next time.​
Waldersee List - Hey remember how for ten minutes Joachim Waldersee was going to be Chancellor and it would potentially take down the Waldersee Empire and his cousin-in-law? Well now Alfred is Kaiser, Cousin Theresa is Kaiserin, Potsdam AG just posted record profits and Joachim is doing Forward Platform documentaries about planes. He is, in theory, still leader of a major political party. If another dozen MdRs defect they won't actually have to merge into the SPD. Would save some paperwork at least.​

ArbeitsAllianz - Mattias Orlowski, aka the man who is going to be leader of the AA at the next election, wants Russia's New Revolutionaries to be present at the next meeting of the Fifth International. The New Revolutionary leader thinks that the current low price of oil is a western plot by Thomas Caro and David Lodz's descendants. Angela Voight however insists that Smirnova had been misquoted and that she couldn't be defending antisemitism because her grandfather's surname was Stein. I think we know who Orlowski's deputy is going to be.
Polish People's - What's more important? Keeping the Polish language schools open in Silesia, or making sure the new Berlin-Warsaw Schnellbahn is built by a contractor based in Danzig? Bet you can't guess which one Adam Lubnauer chose.
Wohnbar - Still wants Alfred to abdicate in favour of Caspar, as in the cousin who tried to sue their Saxe-Coburg-Gotha cousin for marrying a Nigerian lady, the relative too embarrassing even for Alfred. Remember when they tried to get people to support the Austrian team at the Olympics because it was “more German"?
Independents - I think Paula Neumann thought the SPD would let her back in once she won her seat and was proven completely right about getting into bed with Waldersee, but no, still out in the cold. Suspect she'll end up in the UDF. Meanwhile, Hans Heinrich is no longer on a crusade against the Fröhlich community because crumbling rural roads are killing his constituents at the rate of once a fortnight.
 
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Callan said:
German Federal Election, 2021:
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Not-very-democratic-Germany scenarios always fill me with such existential dread. I don’t have that feeling with any other West European nation. You can make a list of France being led by a fascist junta, or Britain by a secret cabal, and I’ll eat that shit up, but a Germany where the Kaiser is still influencing decision making just makes me really sad.
 
Catalunya said:
Not-very-democratic-Germany scenarios always fill me with such existential dread. I don’t have that feeling with any other West European nation. You can make a list of France being led by a fascist junta, or Britain by a secret cabal, and I’ll eat that shit up, but a Germany where the Kaiser is still influencing decision making just makes me really sad.
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Legal tender banknotes in the United States of America, 2017

Bicentennial series (1976 - printing ended 2016, to be demonetized 2021)
$1: George Washington obverse, Great Seal reverse
$2: Thomas Jefferson obverse, Signing of the Declaration of Independence reverse
$5: Abraham Lincoln obverse, Lincoln Memorial reverse
$10: Andrew Jackson obverse, American Progress reverse
$20: Eugene Debs obverse, Workers, Soldiers, and Farmers reverse
$50: Earl Browder obverse, War Against Imperialism Monument reverse
$100: Statue of Liberty obverse, map of United States reverse

America the Beautiful II series (1995)
$1: Brooklyn waterfront obverse, Niagara Falls reverse
$2: 1949 United States Capitol obverse, National Mall reverse
$5: Emancipation Monument (Stone Mountain, GA) obverse, Cumberland Gap reverse
$10: National Music Center (New Orleans, LA) obverse, Mississippi River reverse
$20: Alamo (San Antonio, TX) obverse, Grand Canyon reverse
$50: Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, CA) obverse, Yosemite Valley reverse
$100: Grand Coulee Dam obverse, Denali reverse
$200: Mount Rushmore obverse, Yellowstone geysers reverse
$500: Haymarket Square Memorial obverse, Strait of Mackinac reverse
$1000: Cahokia Mounds obverse, prairie reverse

Millennium Series (2000)
$1: Stalks of wheat obverse, National Agricultural Institute reverse
$2: DNA molecule obverse, National Institute of Health reverse
$5: Bakelite molecule obverse, National Chemical Research Center reverse
$10: Water cycle obverse, Das Kapital reverse
$20: Ben Franklin lightning experiment obverse, power transmission lines reverse
$50: History of the automotive obverse, River Rouge factory reverse
$100: Minerals obverse, Berkeley Pit reverse
$200: Education Monument obverse, Smithsonian Castle reverse
$500: History of the computer obverse, Vital Statistics reverse
$1000: Hubble Space Telescope obverse, Northern Hemisphere constellations reverse

Revolutionary series (2016)
$1: Bacon's Rebellion obverse, Great Seal reverse
$2: The Bloody Massacre obverse, Signing of the Declaration of Independence reverse
$5: Emancipation Monument obverse and reverse
$10: Monument to the American Woman obverse and reverse
$20: Workers, Soldiers, and Farmers obverse, Debs' Address to the 1917 Convention reverse
$50: Embarcadero Burning obverse, IWW Monument reverse
$100: War Against Imperialism Monument obverse and reverse
$200: Statue of Liberty obverse, Angel Island Monument reverse
$500: Labor Knows Neither Race Nor Gender Monument obverse and reverse
$1000: Swords Into Plowshares obverse, Fort Hamilton Park reverse
$2000: The Common American* obverse and reverse

*The Common American is a monument in Chicago's Millennium Park, built in 2000, depicting 2,000 'randomly chosen' and anonymous Americans. The obverse of the "Revolutionary" $2000 bill depicts one of the faces, randomly chosen; the reverse depicts the full monument.
 
napoleon IV said:
This is really good. I love the concept of an alternate history told via coinage, it's a great way to subtly show a ton of differences between an ATL and our world.
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Thanks! I can't take full credit, though - I was reading through @Excelsior's test thread recently and wanted to do my take on this. (I deliberately avoided rereading it so as not to unduly plagiarize, but I'm now noticing that we both had Beautiful America/America the Beautiful as a theme... oh well)
 
Callan said:
The $1000 and $2000 bills are a very subtly illustrative touch.
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Thank you!

Inflation was high throughout the Burnham era, so the bills should really have been larger from the get-go - one OTL dollar was probably about ten here by 1976 - but the political situation was not stable enough to publicly admit that inflation could happen in an economy run on Marxist principles*, and besides any bill that large would have immediately been counterfeited**. By 1995, though, the situation was both more stable (the SDP's hold on power was firmer) and less tenable (Reagan-era inflation had brought the $100 bill to about $6.50 OTL USD, and Reagan-era reforms meant that the government had to actually listen to consumers who found the bills inconveniently small). The Federal Reserve has basically stopped printing $1 and $2 bills for anything other than the collector market, as the former have reached the point of literally being worth less than the paper they're printed on and the latter are not far behind.

*There's an interesting section about the same dynamic in the Soviet Union in Chapter 6 of Anna Ivanova's "Money, Property, and Labor".
**This is, I am told, rumored to be why the largest denomination of Chinese currency is 100 RMB (approx. 15 USD).
 
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Wolfram said:
Thanks! I can't take full credit, though - I was reading through @Excelsior's test thread recently and wanted to do my take on this. (I deliberately avoided rereading it so as not to unduly plagiarize, but I'm now noticing that we both had Beautiful America/America the Beautiful as a theme... oh well)
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Hard to avoid! America's many landmarks, manmade and natural, real and fictional, are obvious choices for currency, and America the Beautiful is just sitting there as a descriptor and song for a socialist country. Great job all around, interesting that Andrew Jackson has a prominent place of all people. I guess the socialist historiography contextualizes him primarily as an expander of the franchise.
 
Excelsior said:
Hard to avoid! America's many landmarks, manmade and natural, real and fictional, are obvious choices for currency, and America the Beautiful is just sitting there as a descriptor and song for a socialist country. Great job all around, interesting that Andrew Jackson has a prominent place of all people. I guess the socialist historiography contextualizes him primarily as an expander of the franchise.
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As of 1976, he was contextualized as an expander of the franchise and of government (the spoils system is viewed differently after the 1920s, in which the center-right tried to prosecute the IWW for corruption - while many of the cases were dubious, the official narrative that it was all just a stitch-up doesn't necessarily hold up), and while the official narrative on Indian removal had reached the point of "bad, actually", there was still more than a bit of "manifest destiny may kill a lot of people, but it also helped bring backwards peoples into the next stage of history, so it;s impossible to say if its bad or not" out there. It didn't help that Reagan had come to power in part as an explicit repudiation of Pauling's tacit support for challenges to the hegemonic narrative from groups like the American Indian Movement.
 
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Turquoise Blue said:
Alright, since I once found this meme, a while ago, I've thought a bit about doing either lists or rundowns for the sixteen scenarios in it.
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"The most boring dystopia possible" reminds me of Jaron Lanier's "Planet of the Help Desks" scenario, where AI and Big Data turn out to be much less automating then people thought and the majority of the human race becomes employed as help desk technicians for these systems:

"Another computer scientist, Jaron Lanier, emphasises the long record of over-optimism of computer advocates, in my view wisely. If processing power continues to develop as it has done, he warns, we will be living on "the planet of the help desks" because the development of software will lag behind. Lanier - and one or two others, notably David Gelerntner - do not accept that there is much, if any, progress, in that they ask: "Are you really better off than 15 years ago?", and believe that we have hit a "complexity ceiling"."


Combine that with a long but not world collapsing slog through climate disasters, and you can have a non-authoritarian dystopia where the politicians are mostly not at fault.
 
Puget Sound said:
"The most boring dystopia possible" reminds me of Jaron Lanier's "Planet of the Help Desks" scenario, where AI and Big Data turn out to be much less automating then people thought and the majority of the human race becomes employed as help desk technicians for these systems:

"Another computer scientist, Jaron Lanier, emphasises the long record of over-optimism of computer advocates, in my view wisely. If processing power continues to develop as it has done, he warns, we will be living on "the planet of the help desks" because the development of software will lag behind. Lanier - and one or two others, notably David Gelerntner - do not accept that there is much, if any, progress, in that they ask: "Are you really better off than 15 years ago?", and believe that we have hit a "complexity ceiling"."


Combine that with a long but not world collapsing slog through climate disasters, and you can have a non-authoritarian dystopia where the politicians are mostly not at fault.
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I saw an interesting tweet a while ag about how 1970s futurists promised to automate the meaningless toil to give us more time for creative pursuits, and 2020s tech brosare succeeding in automating the creative pursuits to make more room for meaningless toil. That's a heck of a dystopia
 
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