Economic Influences by 2062 AD
critical developments
These news articles cover the various developments that formed the current economic and business environment.
Future articles:
The Green Energy Revolution’s Leadership
Commercial scale agriculture since the collapse of bee colonies and extinction of bats
Water rationing – how much water is really left?
Clean Power Consortium To meet in Los angeles!
Annual meeting on latest and greatest in clean energy technologies
October 16, 2060 – SoCal news online
The Clean Power Consortium announced they have moved their annual Board of Directors and consortium meeting to Los Angeles in light of the security failure to detect the airplane bomb that killed the past president.
The Department of National Security will lead a joint Southern California law enforcement task force to ensure the safety of this important meeting.
clean energy adoption leadership
january 1, 2053 – international energy news
A group of concerned industry leaders have formed The Clean Power Consortium to accelerate the conversion to clean energy technologies after the loss of Middle East oil fields. One of their stated goals is helping smaller and poor countries adopt future clean energy technologies.
CPS Annual progress report
latest in Clean Energy technologies
january 1, 2058 – International energy press
The Clean Power Consortium will present the current global state of green energy utilization plus the latest emerging technologies and government policies .
norwegian cpC member dies in suspicious explosion
terrorists suspected
april 22, 2060 – International energy press
The Clean Power Consortium lost the visionary chairman of one of its founding companies in an mid-air explosion of his private jet. Interpol is investigating possible terrorists groups that might be responsible for the death of two passengers and two crew members.
L.A. water now rationed!
7.9 Earthquake damages california aqueduct
November 2, 2050 – SoCal news online
Southern Californians will have to live with severe water rationing for the foreseeable future. California Geological Survey reports that satellite images show the Aqueduct is destroyed along 80% of its length. The regional dams have collapsed and their reservoirs drained to less than 10% of their capacity. The rationing will apply to San Bernadino, Riverside, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties.
The California legislature passed new state-wide water conservation standards that imposes severe penalties for excessive water consumption – now defined as any level beyond Tier 1.
CEA Bankrupt
only FEMA has loans
May 1, 2051 – Tent City Newsletter
The flood of earthquake damage recovery insurance claims has drained the California Earthquake Authority’s home reconstruction funds and the CEA announced it plans to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
At least a third of CEA clients have already written their houses off and sold their damaged property at huge losses to a new group of property developers.
California sets new Building Standards
May 1, 2051 – CA Gov news online
The California government has passed and signed the revised earthquake readiness levels to the be higher than the 8.4 Revised Richter scale in response to the recent earthquake swarm. In addition, new construction and renovations must account for earthquake swarms within a five year period. The Big One’s has exceeded more than 500 aftershocks that damaged building structures that survived the initial shock.
Fire departments also influence the revised standards based on recent experiences. The new building designs also set standards for minimum room, windows, doorway and landscaping clearances.
FEMA BankRUpt!
Congress eliminates program
June 30, 2053 – Tent City Newsletter
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been officially removed from the Homeland Security budget by US Congress and signed into law.
The world in Nuclear Winter
Were you prepared for 8 years of no agriculture?
August 31, 2060 – New York Science news online
As we approach the 8th anniversary of the Middle East Holocaust, we look back at the global agricultural crisis that exists to this day.
The Middle East Holocaust in 2052 killed hundreds of millions. The resulting mushroom and debris clouds reached in the upper atmosphere triggering the ongoing nuclear winter. Although ironically, it reversed global warming for a few years. However, the resulting global impact created widespread famine, killing billions of people, and wiping out whole species of plants, animals and insects.
Florida and California used to be the world’s leading producers of orange juice. Now that title has moved to the protected valleys of Peru, where the last few bee colonies survive. Imported orange juice have now reached $10 Freedom dollars per ounce at the nearby luxury produce boutique. Texans used to order a 6 ounce prime rib cut for $10 Freedom dollars. Now Houstonians must find $900 for that same cut.
Industries adopt RFID
permanent ID used as single standard
Janauary 5, 2050 – dc reporter online
The newly available RFID’s unique identification code has gained wider adoption by more industry groups. Nearly all regional banks and the national credit union consortiums announced immediate plans to use the RFID permanent ID’s as the base account number. The Smart Home industry Tech convention also plans to have members vote on adopting RFID as the authentication and authorization mechanism.
The Department of National Security revealed plans to use RFID storage to hold immigration status and validity dates. The DNS is already testing RFID access control in the New York City, Dallas, and Los Angeles offices. Titan Robotics has also adopted the K-Tech RFID chip as their employee records, tracking, authentication, and access control.
Titan Robotics releases latest model
more human than human?
September 5, 2060 – wall street biz Press
The latest line of hybrid-human robots is sending shock waves through the entertainment and services industries. Quantum leaps in behavior modeling, artificial intelligence, dynamic muscular controls and life-like skin simulations have experts and customers raving about how real these synthetic androids appear.
Supplements outlawed
Need fda Approval
December 1, 2040 – SoCal news online
Washington DC passes law rescinding the sale and use of unregulated supplements. Citing too many example of severe side effects over the past few decades from these “home remedies”, the federal law enforcement agencies will shutdown any unlicensed pharmacies or manufacturers. Repeat offenders will be fined and eventually jailed.