The only part about DPRK that I remember was it being mentioned that during, or maybe even before, the initial outbreak, they went dark, stopped communicating with the entire world, and nobody knew what happened to them - if they shut themselves off to stay alive, or if an infection broke out and killed everyone
Definitely, I dug that one.
It’s certainly possible for economic growth to happen in a virtual environment with no increase in real resource use. To see this, just do a little thought experiment: Imagine simply simulating the economic growth that has already happened on Earth.
Imagine that sometime far in the future, with highly advanced technology, we create a complete, physically exact simulation of the planet Earth in 1600 A.D., complete with the minds of 554 million digitized human beings. And then suppose we simply run that simulation forward, as the digital people develop steam engines, railroads, tractors, cars, airplanes, and so on.
Reading this gave me a fuckin aneurism.
This is a very real increase in GDP!
Bro, fuckin how
The first time I read it, I was like 14 or something, and everyone talked about how realistic the geopolitics were and being 14 I believed them. It wasn't for a few years that I revisited it and saw that it was the most liberal bullshit.
There's one chapter where a government bigwig (iirc) is happy now because they spend all their time growing crops. That's all I got
The catacombs and the nuclear sub chapters are mostly what I remember and they were rad.
Maybe, but I'm willing to try
i thought it finally got blocked in my office!
Same! Borat had a lot of problems with stereotypes, but it was also kind of ahead of its time at making fun of the racism of Americans towards literally everyone.
The politics are dogshit liberalism, but I think the overall story and presentation is very solid.