12-12-2016, 11:52 AM
(12-12-2016, 03:19 AM)Fsci123 Wrote: Oh yeah im aware of the time frame... Writing a near term story maybe more interesting due to the shear realism of the scenario. Ill probably even get a chance to name drop some potential unexpected superpowers for shock value ie: the phillipines or morocco.
Maybe. At the extreme end of the time scale, it might be fun to remember the scenario that Drexler put forward. It involves nanotech, and the essence is that some high-tech but very small polity (he chose Singapore) decides to go all out for semi-autonomous (weak AI, probably) nanoassembler networks.
There are some rather odd seismic and audio anomalies in the China Sea, and one fine day a couple of million tons of semi-autonomous weapons rise out of the sea - and Singapore is the newest superpower.