#hitmarks

The answer: $5.

Let’s see how bad inflation is in 2050!

A knife (30¥) costs $150.

A set of Ordinary Clothing (50¥) costs $250.

A copy of Maria Mercurial’s latest music disk (20¥) costs $100.

That gives you $100 from your stimulus check for pocket money. Now to just figure out how much data space 1 Megapulse (Mp) is…

Politics

With recent (real-life) events happening in the USA, it’s interesting to see where the authors thought we’d be in 2050:

Apparently by then we figure out how to break the 2-party Democrat/Republican system. In addition to the Libertarians hanging in there, bless their fiscally conservative, socially liberal hearts, we have the Technocratic party, pushing a “platform of technology as the salvation of the UCAS”, and the Archconservative party, whose platform is likely “let’s return to the way things were in 1850”.

The Technocracy Party was not able to nominate a single delegate. Yet…

Metroplexes

The NAGNA has separate sections on three UCAS cities:

New York. Sigh. Okay. Despite my naysaying of NYC, I’m sure there are people who want to see what the City That Never Sleeps is up to.

Washington, D.C., or “DeeCee”, as it is called by its stripper name. It’s the capital. Makes sense.