[War_ooc] Countries, timeline stuff, etc.

[lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca]

And by #2 I mean #3 ;)

Quoting lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca:

> I'd like to point out that #2 will simply make it more difficult for
> more oppressive regimes to withhold information from masses, as being
> currently seen in Iran. Maybe effects on places like Iran/Syria,
> China, DPRK, Russia, et. al?
>
> As well, could we maybe push it back to 2017, seeing as we'd have to
> come up for a reason why Barak's popularity would level off after only
> one term, and we could see the global economy in rebound? :P
>
> Quoting John Penta <john.penta at gmail.com>:
>
>> Don't (that is, do NOT) claim countries yet. Please.
>>
>> I'm going to write the timeline very bullheadedly - not that any country is
>> on my attack-list, but there are certain thoughts I've had over the past 48
>> hours that I want to explore.
>>
>> Themes that have hit my radar, not really sure how I'm going to integrate
>> them, but this is fair warning. You may not agree with these in any way -
>> you may well violently disagree with how I express them (or expressing them
>> at all) for each country, but I'm using these as publicly-announced
>> guideposts.
>>
>>  1. The Great Awakening - A standby from the last time that never really got
>> explored, it sounds odd in the wake of the Atheist Bus Campaign and other
>> things. But as we go through the recession, I sense on the macro-level (ie,
>> globally) an uptick in religious belief, with a return to traditional
>> values. It'll vary country by country in how it expresses itself, but it'll
>> show up everywhere. It doesn't -necessarily- benefit who you think it would,
>> either.
>>
>>   2. The Long, Slow Rebound - Ignoring all the alphabet soup descriptors of
>> a recession, I posit that the recession takes until mid-2010 to begin to
>> end, and the recovery is still fragile by 2013.
>>
>>   3. The Twitter society - No, I'm not going to try and figure out how
>> twitter will make its money. But I figure that social-networking sites will
>> continue to explode...with unpredictable effects on society.
>>
>>   These are starter points - I doubtlessly will think up entirely new ideas
>> (some good, some bad, some truly strange) as I sit to do this.
>>
>> I will, you may rest assured, include my share of surprises.
>>
>> Update: About that timeline. Right now, I'm not at my normal computer (It's
>> currently broken - the AC adapter won't stay plugged in). I lost all my
>> notes in a hard drive crash after WAR died the first time, a quick check of
>> it shows.
>>
>> Sigh. I want -one person- to step forward and help me with the mass of
>> writing that looks likely to be ahead.
>>
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