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-	of them [[~~Preservationists~~]]) feared that bloody conflict	+	of them [[Preservationist]]s) feared that bloody conflict
	would result.		would result.

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	world stage.		world stage.
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		+	== Dragon Ascendant ==
		+	Foremost of these new Great Powers was the People’s
		+	Republic of [[China]]. For decades the PRC had charted its
		+	own distinctive course, paying lip service to Mao-
		+	Communism but actually forging its own synthesis of Chinese
		+	social ideas and Western-style capitalism. Relations
		+	with the rest of the world were often prickly, as the Chinese
		+	leadership maintained its distance from the West and
		+	from the developed nations of eastern Asia. Economic
		+	growth was steady and tended to be somewhat faster than
		+	in [[Japan]], the [[United States]], or Europe. By 2070 the PRC
		+	had the largest national economy on the planet, passing
		+	that of the United States and still growing rapidly.
		+
		+	== New Revolutions ==
		+	Meanwhile, another new superpower of sorts was
		+	emerging from the “[[infosocialist]]” political movement of
		+	the 2060s. In 2074 several nations with infosocialist
		+	governments formed the [[Transpacific Socialist Alliance]].
		+	[[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]], [[Peru]], and [[Thailand]] were
		+	the dominant partners. The members agreed to closely
		+	coordinate their economic and foreign policies, standing in
		+	defense of infosocialism against the world.
		+
		+	The new alliance soon alienated most of the world
		+	community through its radical policy of nationalizing all
		+	intellectual property. By 2077 the developed nations had
		+	enacted severe economic sanctions against the TSA, forbidding
		+	most trade and severely curtailing cultural and scientific
		+	exchanges. The sanctions had less effect than the
		+	capitalist nations had hoped, in large part because it proved
		+	impossible to prevent the flow of information in
		+	both directions across the TSA borders. Technical
		+	data continued to enter the TSA, while infosocialist
		+	propaganda poured out. The sanctions
		+	further encouraged the TSA nations to engage in
		+	wholesale piracy of patents.
		+
		+	The TSA failed to meet many of its economic
		+	goals, but “nanosocialism” (as the ideology
		+	eventually became known) did make many
		+	high-tech goods available to the general population
		+	of the TSA nations. The standard of living
		+	of the poorest citizens improved markedly.
		+	Soon, nanosocialism was as popular within the
		+	TSA as it was reviled outside.
		+
		+	== Humanity Shattered ==
		+	Aside from the nanosocialist revolution,
		+	the world continued to enjoy peace and prosperity
		+	through the 2070s. In the developed
		+	nations, the situation was one of social drift.
		+	The grand ideological crusades of the Awakening
		+	era were over, leaving behind cynicism
		+	and sour infighting over relatively trivial
		+	political issues.
		+
		+	By 2070, the majority of humans were
		+	gene-enhanced. The most common alterations
		+	were subtle and therapeutic, correcting well-known
		+	genetic disorders and bringing a
		+	general improvement to health and quality of life.
		+	In the wealthiest nations, however, more radical
		+	transformations were becoming common. It was
		+	now possible (and, in some circles, acceptable) to
		+	engineer one’s children for significantly higher
		+	intelligence, specific talents, or even a different
		+	physical structure. By the mid-2070s, dozens of
		+	engineered genetic types had gained widespread
		+	popularity. Despite dire predictions, this diversification
		+	in human genetics had relatively little
		+	effect at first.
		+
		+	The social time bomb exploded in 2075,
		+	when Hippocrene Laboratories made a public
		+	release of the specifications for its [[Alpha]]-series
		+	genetic design. The Alpha upgrade had been
		+	available at high cost for some time, but now it
		+	would be well within a middle-class budget in
		+	the developed world. At the same time, the first
		+	Alpha cohorts had reached young adulthood, and
		+	were already making a notable mark in many
		+	sectors of society. As a result, the design
		+	proved extremely popular.
		+
		+	At about the same time, [[Biotech Euphrates]] announced the conclusion of public
		+	trials for its more radical [[Ziusudra]] design.
		+	Despite its superficial similarity to the
		+	unmodified type, the Ziusudra was in fact a
		+	new human subspecies, unable to interbreed
		+	with the human root stock without technological
		+	aid. This in itself was not new, as there
		+	were already a number of such subspecies in
		+	existence. The widespread popularity of the
		+	Ziusudra template, however, meant that
		+	Homo sapiens sapiens would henceforth be
		+	sharing Earth with other human species.
		+	Indeed, the original human species might
		+	soon be a minority within Earth’s population.
		+	The world community was now confronted with
		+	the fact that the very definition of humanity could
		+	no longer be relied upon. Many observers (not all
		+	of them [[Preservationists]]) feared that bloody conflict
		+	would result.
		+
		+	Humanity did not have the luxury of time to
		+	decide how to deal with its division. The 2070s
		+	also saw the first mass production of [[bioroids]], the
		+	genetic “uplifting” of nonhuman species to full
		+	sentience, the appearance of human-level sapience
		+	in computers, and the first experiments with
		+	personality uploading. Despite every effort on the
		+	part of Preservationists worldwide, the “Shattering
		+	Seventies” proved that humanity would
		+	inevitably be remade in a thousand divergent
		+	images. Once a fringe philosophy, [[Transhumanism]]
		+	was rapidly becoming so pervasive as to be
		+	taken for granted in much of the world.

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[[Category:History]]
By the early 2070s, the social upheavals
of the [[Transhuman Awakening]] were over.
Most of the radical youth movements of the
early Awakening had collapsed, although
both [[Transhumanist]] and [[Preservationist]]
ideals were continuing to take root in different
sectors of society. In most parts of the
developed world, a conservative reaction had
gained control of political and social institutions.
The new young generation was cynical
rather than idealistic, interested in surviving
rather than rebuilding a hostile world.

The era from about 2070 to 2084 was
often called “The Overturn.” It was a time of
economic prosperity worldwide, but in most
places it was also a time of social drift, during
which rival ideologies fought bitter but
increasingly ineffective struggles. The global
political order which had existed since the fall
of Soviet Communism in 1992 was finally
beginning to unravel. Established powers
such as the [[United States]] and the [[European Union]] were suddenly finding themselves
eclipsed by nations new to the center of the
world stage.

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