I'm planning on running a d20 Modern Cowboy Bebop campaign that takes place in the year 2075. I need suggestions for stuff that might exist in that time period. I'm talking about items, appliances, electronics, clothes, trends, music, movies, vehicles, video games. Basically everything and anything. Your ideas are needed and appreciated.
Stuff That Might Exist in the Year 2075
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Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Virtual Reality Adventure Games - sort of like the idea presented in the Total Recall movie, imagine being able to play in something like Everquest in which you are really (virtually) there and able to cast virtual spells.
Holographic entertainment systems - Yeah the Vampire hides behind your couch until Buffy dives over your head and slays it where you sit.
and the PS4 Holography system - you still get to play Final Fantasy 36 but this time holographic images dance around you during the 'Midnight Ball' cut scene
Personal Robots
Android Prosititutes
Waterpowered Hover Cars
Holographic entertainment systems - Yeah the Vampire hides behind your couch until Buffy dives over your head and slays it where you sit.
and the PS4 Holography system - you still get to play Final Fantasy 36 but this time holographic images dance around you during the 'Midnight Ball' cut scene
Personal Robots
Android Prosititutes
Waterpowered Hover Cars
worry about the singularity
The singularity should be happening sometime between now and then. Some good resources on what we'll be doing:
1) http://www.aleph.se/Trans
2) All of SJ Games Transhuman Space line
But basically, the theme is that people underestimate what huge processing power can do for you. Gartner tells us that desktop machines in 2011 will contain 10-15 40GHz processors. And that's just 2011.
By 2030 we'll have AI by brute-force molecular-level simulation of human brains if we haven't figured out a better way before then.
But basically as soon as you have self-improving AI (i.e. AI that can rewrite its own code), you really can't predict what's going to happen next. You may get something that looks like Greg Egan's Diaspora. OTOH, you may get something that looks like my Artilect Earth setting where the superbeings go off and do their own thing, managing not to step on the posthumans left behind. Or you get something that looks like Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime -- where no-one gets left behind and the human race sublimes into the compusphere.
Or, or, or -- million options.
But anyway, you get the point. If you're running a human-comprehensible game set in 2075, it's probably a "left-behind" thing. Super-AI happened, molecular nanotech happened, but the PC cultures don't or refuse to access such things, and are not overly influenced by whatever superintelligences and great powers do exist. Humans are still around.
Modesitt's Gravity Dreams has an example of a nanotech civilization enclosing pre-nanotech civilizations, and a superbeing doing the same to the nanotech civilization.
Reason
The singularity should be happening sometime between now and then. Some good resources on what we'll be doing:
1) http://www.aleph.se/Trans
2) All of SJ Games Transhuman Space line
But basically, the theme is that people underestimate what huge processing power can do for you. Gartner tells us that desktop machines in 2011 will contain 10-15 40GHz processors. And that's just 2011.
By 2030 we'll have AI by brute-force molecular-level simulation of human brains if we haven't figured out a better way before then.
But basically as soon as you have self-improving AI (i.e. AI that can rewrite its own code), you really can't predict what's going to happen next. You may get something that looks like Greg Egan's Diaspora. OTOH, you may get something that looks like my Artilect Earth setting where the superbeings go off and do their own thing, managing not to step on the posthumans left behind. Or you get something that looks like Vernor Vinge's Marooned in Realtime -- where no-one gets left behind and the human race sublimes into the compusphere.
Or, or, or -- million options.
But anyway, you get the point. If you're running a human-comprehensible game set in 2075, it's probably a "left-behind" thing. Super-AI happened, molecular nanotech happened, but the PC cultures don't or refuse to access such things, and are not overly influenced by whatever superintelligences and great powers do exist. Humans are still around.
Modesitt's Gravity Dreams has an example of a nanotech civilization enclosing pre-nanotech civilizations, and a superbeing doing the same to the nanotech civilization.
Reason
Jürgen Hubert
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Re: worry about the singularity
While I have serious doubts about the Singularity, I definietly second the Transhuman Space. It is one of the few RPG attempts at presenting a realistic future history, one that isn't bound by silly conventions. ("No, we'd never permit human genetic engineering! That would be, you know, Evil! Only Mad Scientists would ever even consider something like that!)
Highly recommended. And this has nothing to do with the fact that I am listed as a playtester.
reason said:
While I have serious doubts about the Singularity, I definietly second the Transhuman Space. It is one of the few RPG attempts at presenting a realistic future history, one that isn't bound by silly conventions. ("No, we'd never permit human genetic engineering! That would be, you know, Evil! Only Mad Scientists would ever even consider something like that!)
Highly recommended. And this has nothing to do with the fact that I am listed as a playtester.
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