Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 20171/ *Ahem* (corrects spelling, puts on Hari Seldon mask)Quote TweetPatrick Atwater @patwater·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @calcsam and @vgrThe second American revolution and the rise of cities : a physchohistoric account19
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr2/ So psychohistory of 2074 - 2174 (why? Because I'll be 100 in 2074 and won't give a crap about being wrong if still alive)124
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr3/ In 2074, the USA still exists but is primarily a marketing federation owned by the Blockchain 100. USAcoin trades at Premium Mediocre.112
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr4/ The neourban LEAP zones of San Francisco, Seattle, New York, LA, Chicago are locked in a battle to control USAcoin futures.13
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr5/ In theory, the major remaining urban zones of the US mainland are cooperating partners in a new Hanseatic League against the Chinese....412
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr9/ The war leads to an uneasy detente for 40 years, known as the Cold Storage, followed by the Great Hard Fork of 212721
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr11/ But the New Westphalian Coalition (NWC) with the DC zone, the New Confederacy, and China, begins rebuilding a nation-state world11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 16, 2017Replying to @vgr12/ By 2060, the UCC is in steep decline. The resurgent New Westphalians are establishing a new order of nation states that looks like 19191
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr13/ Finally in 2174, in the Great Sack, all the urban cores are destroyed by the New Westphalians4:40 AM · Jul 16, 2017