That's a great perspective to keep in mind. 50 years is a long time. It's less than our life span, so I guess we don't think so, but wow, have things shifted an

That's a great perspective to keep in mind. 50 years is a long time. It's less than our life span, so I guess we don't think so, but wow, have things shifted and accelerated. I'm frequently perplexed about people decrying unrealistic future politics. Heck, Back to the Future makes the joke about Japanese tech in the same way. And hey, at least the Siliciods aren't peacefully declaring war on you for your hyper-aggressive inaction on turn one (Master of Orion 3 shall always have the most broken politics). Edit: double checking, the article notes the game starts hundreds of years in the future (and a couple other non-spoiler sites corroborate). Frankly, at that point from now, all bets are off. (A hundred years ago, power grids were just starting to be a pretty cool idea.)