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    Bootknife-Jackson: I hate artist statements.... If the art were strong, it would communicate quite well without the pretention... Artist statements remind me of art sc... more »
    MargaretMoony: This looks like it would be a really good designer's capstone project. more »
    gorehound: I'll take the Heroin Fun KIt..............no wait a minute I must stop....NO NO NO. I cannot do Heroin again as I am a junkie and have been sober for ... more »
    Makidian: I don't know about the Suicide Cola, but I am surprised that with a Heroin Fun Kit there wouldn't be a Cocaine Energy Shot for those times you have to... more »
    Post-Nuked: Feels like I drank too much Dirt Nap last night. Damn Thanksgiving cheer. Fast acting formula my ass! more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: Haha, Anarkist Handbook. Oh, the days of scouring the BBSs for the latest copy of that bullshit handbook. more »
    golddiggersof2033: Does #1 taste like Coke BlāK? more »
    ManchuCandidate: Hey, where's the Soylent Jerky? more »
    ithyphallus, bonks morrigan: if you get a six pack of that suicide drink, make sure to give the first 5 to your friends and family. more »
    strideo: I love how so many people are worried about corporate feudalism but no one accepts that the consumer has a fair amount of responsibility in this regar... more »
    mondojohnson: Two mysterious omissions that I'm sure others have caught: the camp classic "Red Dawn" for the Soviet invasion trope, and Phillip Roth's fantastic "P... more »
    Peppermint_m: Got to say that I have never considered any of those to be a future for the US. As an outsider looking in, I became greatly confused by the "United" p... more »
    CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Haha. At least America has 3 options. Here in the UK we are fooked. Our Goverment is beyond curupt and the only other option is the BNP. If anyone in ... more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: I'd say corporate feudalism, but that would imply that the corporations would bother to take care of those who lived under their rule, something it se... more »
    twophrasebark: "Presidents like FDR and Richard Nixon consolidated so much power that many historians would call them proto-fascist." Which historians are those? Ami... more »
  • #conceptart

    Heroin Fun Kits, Suicide Cola, and Other Unfortunate Products from the Apocalypse

    Will corporations still market to consumers at the end of the world? Designer Carl Bender certainly thinks so, and his series Anarkon imagines the sorts of products companies will try to sell consumers after the apocalypse, complete with pretty packaging. More »
  • #futurism

    The Future Of The U.S. Government, According To Science Fiction

    Countless science fiction stories have asked the same question: What will America turn into next? The answers fall into three major categories, some more plausible than others. Take our poll to choose your favorite option. More »
  • #futureeconomics

    Are Evil MegaCorps The Future Of Capitalism?

    With the economy in ruins, could we finally see the MegaCorp-dominated future that Cyberpunk promised us? Could a few companies finally control all the financial and industrial sectors? We decided to ask an expert. More »
  • #economicdystopia

    The Greatest Depressions (and Economic Recoveries) of Science Fiction

    Science fiction never fails to predict bizarre, unwelcome futures and the current global economic meltdown is no exception. We love to imagine all the ways our world will end not with a bang, but with a flood of hemorrhaged garbage cash. Two of this year's scifi film crop, Babylon A.D. and The Road, predict a geopolitical landscape shredded by scarcity. But unlike most politicians, science fiction tales offer a wide range of solutions to economic peril: everything from time-travel-enhanced investments to interstellar hypercapitalism. And yet at the heart of even the most Utopian solution to financial collapse there lurks a tale of human self-destructiveness, a not-so-buried wish to see the species destroyed or enslaved for its economic choices. Do our fantasies doom us to financial failure? More »