![]() I always thought the shit would go down when I was young and strong. For the masses, the future looks like an insect world of starvation or highly-surveilled shock work for the few, a melancholy decadence conducted behind high walls. Life becomes hellish for all but the very wealthy. New pathogens emerge out of the melting permafrost, killing millions. The Tibetan plateau is a global flashpoint. ![]() ![]() ![]() The environment collapses, and the resulting massive migrations of people lead to vicious authoritarian regimes taking control in richer countries. The US becomes an autocracy, and devolves into a weak and fractious patchwork of jurisdictions run by more or less rapacious oligarchs who conduct a losing war with China, first cold then hot. Not long ago, Hari Kunzru was asked in an interview, “What is the worst-case scenario for the future?” He answered with brutal lucidity: Hari Kunzru illustration by Hope Gangloff ![]()
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