Crucible Of Realms

Hosts: Jim, Jon & KentThe focus of this episode is a dystopian future setting called the EarthTech Trials. Want a world with corporations controlling everything, cybernetics running rampant and popularity of web presence deciding government policy? This is it. Find it in the wiki here!00:00 Tomfoolery01:13 Introduction02:00 World Concept02:16 The Running Man03:23 The Hunger Games04:12 Orwellian04:40 Deciding the Era06:55 Dystopia / Media Influence07:12 Max Headroom07:37 Rupert Murdoch07:57 McDonnell Douglas / McDonald's08:13 Taco Bell08:30 World War Corporation / War on the Web08:56 Google / Facebook09:30 Baidu10:31 William Shatner's TekWar11:16 Nike / Squad Combat / Paintball11:39 How Things Changed11:55 One World Government13:40 Factions14:06 Marshal Josip Broz Tito16:27 Alien Threat Conspiracy19:00 Setting the Level of Devastation19:28 Earthborne Devastation19:37 The Day After Tomorrow20:29 48th Parallel21:00 World Dome22:52 Brain-Computer Interface22:57 Transhumanism23:50 Beyond the Fringe / "Civil Wa