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This is often [[FutureSocietyPresentValues a linear extrapolation of national malaise or existing crises]], so American works of the 1970s have [[UrbanHellscape endlessly skyrocketing crime and inner urban decay]] [[note]] true enough in places like Detroit, Michigan, but wildly wrong in general; cities like NYC are safer today than ever before [[/note]] whereas the 1980s brought the notion that {{Mega Corp}}s and [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan]] (especially [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Japanese megacorps]]) would rule the world. When the 1990s came around, the US economy recovered while the Japanese economy tanked; the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and subsequent collapse of many authoritarian communist regimes drastically changed the political picture of both the present and the future. Instead of criminal anarchy or corporate governance, there was a lot more focus on how technology (particularly the internet) has come to permeate everyday life and challenge long-held conceptions of the individual and society as a whole, leading to {{Techno Dystopia}}s and {{Robot War}}s. With the TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens, the woes of the future became [[{{Dystopia}} straw (invariably right-wing) dystopias]], [[ForeverWar endless American interventionism]] and [[GlobalWarming climate change run amok]].

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This is often [[FutureSocietyPresentValues a linear extrapolation of national malaise or existing crises]], so American works of the 1970s have [[UrbanHellscape endlessly skyrocketing crime and inner urban decay]] [[note]] true enough in places like Detroit, Michigan, but wildly wrong in general; cities like NYC are safer today than ever before [[/note]] general[[/note]] whereas the 1980s brought the notion that {{Mega Corp}}s and [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japan]] (especially [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Japanese megacorps]]) would rule the world. When the 1990s came around, the US economy recovered while the Japanese economy tanked; the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and subsequent collapse of many authoritarian communist regimes drastically changed the political picture of both the present and the future. Instead of criminal anarchy or corporate governance, there was a lot more focus on how technology (particularly the internet) has come to permeate everyday life and challenge long-held conceptions of the individual and society as a whole, leading to {{Techno Dystopia}}s and {{Robot War}}s. With the TurnOfTheMillennium and TheNewTens, the woes of the future became [[{{Dystopia}} straw (invariably right-wing) dystopias]], [[ForeverWar endless American interventionism]] and [[GlobalWarming climate change run amok]].
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* ''Comicbook/{{Commando}}'' had a series set soon where war was effectively outlawed. Instead, nations solved their issues using virtual reality.

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* ''Comicbook/{{Commando}}'' ''ComicBook/CommandoComics'' had a series set soon where war was is effectively outlawed. Instead, nations solved solve their issues using virtual reality.

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