#ourfuture #21stcenturypredictions #sciencefiction
..."On Wings of Song is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Thomas M. Disch.
...the novel presents a detailed portrait of a future United States torn by economic hardship and culture war. The Midwestern Farm Belt states are ruled by a coalition of the Christian right, known as "undergoders" (a reference to the successful conservative campaign to add the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance); the nominally secular government is socially repressive and business-friendly to an extreme. The coastal states more closely resemble present-day urban America, with generally permissive social attitudes and artistic ferment, but great economic inequality. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Wings_of_Song_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
"Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.
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The story opens in Los Angeles in the 21st century, an unspecified number of years after a worldwide economic collapse. Los Angeles is no longer part of the United States since the federal government has ceded most of its power and territory to private organizations and entrepreneurs.[8] Franchising, individual sovereignty, and private vehicles reign supreme. Mercenary armies compete for national defense contracts, while private security guards preserve the peace in sovereign gated housing developments.[9]: 45 Highway companies compete to attract drivers to their roads,[9]: 7 and all mail delivery is by hired courier.[9]: 306 The remnants of government maintain authority only in isolated compounds, where they do tedious make-work that is, by and large, irrelevant to the society around them.[9]: 176 Much of the world's territory has been carved up into sovereign enclaves known as Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities (FOQNEs),[9]: 14 each run by its own big business franchise"...
