…will port through to here from my anti-dystopia blog. Should be interesting to find out, no? Here’s the link. Short version: yeah, they said the same thing in the 1970s, too. And then none of it happened.
[UPDATE: Yup, it went through, here and on Twitter. Excellent.]
A very minor note: GURPS OGRE.
It’s not particularly earth-shattering or anything, but while consulting my copy of GURPS Ogre
in preparation for the release of the game later this year I noted in the book’s timeline that this year (2012) is supposed to be the one where the USA runs out of oil.
Which is, of course, not even remotely true. But it’s based on assessments that a lot of people took seriously ten to thirty years ago – and, to be fair, those people were generally acting in good faith when they received the information, even if the people that disseminated it may not have been – so expect a rash of curiously-dated gaming and SF material to intrude on one’s consciousness. So it goes.
