• Totalitarian government controls our very thoughts and prohibits sex. Barcodes tattooed on everyone’s foreheads.
  • Ravening undead spread across the globe seeking brains to consume. Shotgun and chainsaw prices skyrocket.
  • Emboldened by death of Charlton Heson, marauding aliens enslave humanity, force us to build enigmatic monuments to confuse future archaeologists.
  • End of oil leads to an BDSM-inspired biker gangs battling through an anarchic desert landscape.
  • Giant astroid headed for Earth, government efforts to stop it held up by bureaucratic red tape. Survivors envy the dead.
  • All social interaction conducted through Facebook, and food rations are determined by how many friends we can get to add our application.
  • Newly-sentient computers make war on their creators, humans acquiesce to machine rule, having forgotten how to live without email.
  • Current packaging trends carried to their logical conclusion. With all food encased in impenetrable blister packs, humans starve to death.
  • Environment trashed, humanity attempts to flee to a new planet, only to realize that no one ever really bothered to figure out interstellar space flight.
  • Proliferation of antibacterial hand washes leads to an outbreak of drug-resistant pinkeye that decimates humanity.

2 Responses to “A selection of dystopic futures:”

  1. JB Says:

    These is what you think about when you’re not thinking deep thoughts?!

  2. Loy36 Says:

    In that case, no one would have to keep cash balances on hand. ,


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