Transhuman Space Classic: Broken Dreams

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http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/transhuman/brokendreams/ Introduction About Transhuman Space About the Author About GURPS 1. Overview: Moving Faster and Still Falling Behind Broken Dreams The States of the World The Global System Weltspiel Living on the Trailing Edge of the Future Transition and Transformation Top Five Most Popular Weltspiel Sites Advantages of Backwardness Memetic Relations Popular Culture Memetic Warfare Popular Global Media Religion Ideologies and Memes Voudoun Politics, Economics, and Power Globalization Lithuanian Transparency Distribution of Technology Bombjacking Crime and Punishment Campaigns in Broken Dreams 2. Opting Out Leaving the System Isolates Isolate Communities Sabbaticals Isolate Nations The Islamic Caliphate Life in the Islamic Caliphate The Politics and Structure of the Caliphate Useful Terms The Five Pillars of Wisdom The Salamatin Technology and the Caliphate Aylisha The Caliphate and the Rest of the World The Sikkiyn Parvez Kholani Global Memes and the Caliphate Characters in the Caliphate The Transpacific Socialist Alliance Structure Infosocialism versus Nanosocialism Key Directorates in the TSA Operational Directorates Technology TSA Member National Politics Tia Chong Factions Guardians and Helots Relations with the Outside World Tommy Guerro 3. Present Shock: Areas in Transition Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control Number One Songs from Around the World Life in a Perpetual Beta Test Social Transition Stress Disorder Popular Antistress Drugs Interfering Waves Panopticon Societies To Have and Have Not Examples of Content-Rights Management Content Rights and the WTO Technology Imports and Exports Knock-Off and Gray Market Companies Penalties for Piracy Relations with the Fifth Wave World Business Memetic Sweatshops Law Enforcement Politics Backwards Areas Five Most Popular World Leaders Resistance to Change Forms of Resistance Recent Boycotts Typical Military Forces in Transition Areas 4. The State of Nature: Conflict and Crisis The Environment Heavy Weather Climate Change Stormchasers Earthquakes The Big One Diseases Environmental Cleanup and Anti-Ecoweapon Corporations Ecotage Areoforming Industrial Pollution Coping with Eco-Crisis Kleptocracies, Gangs, and Warlords Kleptocratic Regimes Active Criminal Organizations Organized Crime Factions and Warlords Revolutions and War Uprisings Coups and Civil Wars Interstate Wars Five Deadliest Current Civil Wars International Terror Movements Great Power Intervention Forces Terrorist Movements in 2100 Typical Military Forces in Chaotic Areas 5. Life in the World of Broken Dreams Nairobi Overview Robert Ampala SafariShells Nyota Kongata Places Current Events Los Angeles Overview Places Chawalit Sang Likphai Ruben Galindo Bellissima Top Five Worldarc Storyworlds – January, 2100 Current Events Alma-ata Overview The Muslim Underground Evgeny Mara (Mullah Sifr) Characters in Alma-Ata Eduard Mikhailovich Kharkov The Blyustetyelui Places Alma-Ata’s Augmented Reality Current Events 6. Characters Character Types Inappropriate Types Activists Archaeotechnologist Artist Criminal Entrepreneur Intelligence Agent Military Personnel Missionary/Chaplain Stormchaser Tech Broker Racial and Model Templates Parahuman and Ideal Type Templates Bioroid Templates Cybershell Templates Advantages and Disadvantages STSD Effects Skills New Skills 7. Technology Old and New Technologies Obsolete Equipment Planned Obsolescence and Mandatory Upgrades Beta Equipment Hackware and Hot Mods Computers Hardware Wearable Virtual Interfaces Software Augmented Reality and Advertising Cybernetic Gear Bionic Limbs and Organs Software Upgrades Implants New Brainbugs Ecological Equipment Law Enforcement Equipment Crime Investigation and Prevention Equipment Forensic Equipment Suits and Personal Armor Crime Scene Investigations Transportation Weapons Weapon Table Unconventional Warfare Ecoweapons Explosives NNBC Weapons (Nuclear/Nano/Bio/Chem) Proteus Weapons Bibliography Index