Zompist Bboard Again

OK, there seems to be enough interest in this, so I'll start. First of all, why 2100? It's a nice round number that's within the lifespan of a child born today, which makes the extrapolations easier. Coincidentally it's also when Wells' The Sleeper Wakes and the RPG GURPS Transhuman Space are set. T...

One of the writers on Star Trek complained that human religion was thousands of years old, so expecting it to have all disappeared by the 24th century was ridiculous. That's not completely valid logic - maybe technology has changed human society in an unprecedented way, so religion has disappeared. ...

I didn't think of The Stars My Destination, but it does seem to be a very similar idea. Thanks for mentioning it.

Thanks for the feedback. The inspiration for this is that FTL travel is a common technology in SF, but is impossible in real physics. So I thought I'd lean into the impossibility, and make FTL travel only possible by an inexplicable "psychic power", and all the other technology be complete...

It's a little different from the "conworlds" that are usually discussed here, but I was thinking of creating a setting of Earth in the year 2100, extrapolated from real economics and demographics. I did something similar on the old board, but I'll be less ambitious this time. Is there any ...