[War_ooc] Countries, timeline stuff, etc.

[lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca]

I'd like to point out that #2 will simply make it more difficult for  
more oppressive regimes to withhold information from masses, as being  
currently seen in Iran. Maybe effects on places like Iran/Syria,  
China, DPRK, Russia, et. al?

As well, could we maybe push it back to 2017, seeing as we'd have to  
come up for a reason why Barak's popularity would level off after only  
one term, and we could see the global economy in rebound? :P

Quoting John Penta <john.penta at gmail.com>:

> Don't (that is, do NOT) claim countries yet. Please.
>
> I'm going to write the timeline very bullheadedly - not that any country is
> on my attack-list, but there are certain thoughts I've had over the past 48
> hours that I want to explore.
>
> Themes that have hit my radar, not really sure how I'm going to integrate
> them, but this is fair warning. You may not agree with these in any way -
> you may well violently disagree with how I express them (or expressing them
> at all) for each country, but I'm using these as publicly-announced
> guideposts.
>
>  1. The Great Awakening - A standby from the last time that never really got
> explored, it sounds odd in the wake of the Atheist Bus Campaign and other
> things. But as we go through the recession, I sense on the macro-level (ie,
> globally) an uptick in religious belief, with a return to traditional
> values. It'll vary country by country in how it expresses itself, but it'll
> show up everywhere. It doesn't -necessarily- benefit who you think it would,
> either.
>
>   2. The Long, Slow Rebound - Ignoring all the alphabet soup descriptors of
> a recession, I posit that the recession takes until mid-2010 to begin to
> end, and the recovery is still fragile by 2013.
>
>   3. The Twitter society - No, I'm not going to try and figure out how
> twitter will make its money. But I figure that social-networking sites will
> continue to explode...with unpredictable effects on society.
>
>   These are starter points - I doubtlessly will think up entirely new ideas
> (some good, some bad, some truly strange) as I sit to do this.
>
> I will, you may rest assured, include my share of surprises.
>
> Update: About that timeline. Right now, I'm not at my normal computer (It's
> currently broken - the AC adapter won't stay plugged in). I lost all my
> notes in a hard drive crash after WAR died the first time, a quick check of
> it shows.
>
> Sigh. I want -one person- to step forward and help me with the mass of
> writing that looks likely to be ahead.
>