Re: More future history questions - USA

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Earlier than Jesusland, look for Ecotopia by Callenbach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Callenbach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia

Another possible model: How about Vinge's "Bobble" landscape:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peace_War

Further down the road, but some interesting stuff there.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:04 PM, John Tailby <john_tailby@xtra.co.nz>
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> Richard Morgan had a similar split for the US. The Pacific Rim,
Eastern
> States and Jesus Land.
>
> It's been stated by other non finctional authors that many of the
middle
> states of the US would ahve 3rd world economies if it wasn't for
central
> government spending. How that will go with defence and NASA budget
cuts
>
> It's also been postulated about how the US would / could fall from
it's
> position as world number 1.
>
> Either scenarios like the EMP pulse from Dark Angel or a terroist
nuking
> like Babylon 5. Alternatively look at the American economy. They are
the
> worlds biggest debtor and the struggle to export and mounting personal
debt
> makes it harder for domestic consumption to get the economy out of
trouble.
> With the government struggling to balance it's books as well it's hard
to
> see where the economic stimulous will come from.
>
> The one thing that the US has going for it is that it is "too big to
fail"
> a failure by the US economy would have major impacts on their major
trading
> partners (nearly everyone) and so have ripple effects around the
world.
> People are far less likely to call in their loans on the US than they
might
> be on smaller countries like Greece..
>
> it will be intersting to see if Greece can get itself out of the mess
or
> whether it triggers a domino effect accross the Euro zone.
>
>

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