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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wil" data-source="post: 2811370" data-attributes="member: 3502">So settings that don't have virtual samurai running around trying to kill each other are unrealistic?  *j/k*BTW, I'm definitely not implying that technological advances will not change society - they already have and will continue to do so.  Yet, somehow, I'm still sitting here with a pad of paper and a pen beside me.  I still wake up, go to work, go home, take care of the kids.  My actual activities (type on a PC keyboard to people scattered across the world, get in a car and drive to and from work, play video games) might be incomprehensible to, say, an ancient Greek without some context...but the meat of it is still the same.Maybe the question is...how much is considered too little change?  A game set in the 63rd century where gunpowder-based firearms are still the most common military weapon?  A setting 200 years from now that has no nanotechnology?  I'm sure that there were people in the 60s who couldn't conceive of not having settlements on Mars in 2005...but we don't.Maybe I should just wait 20 years and see what the world is like and compare it to what people thought 2025 would be like...</blockquote>