The year is 2020 and the world is starting to recover from the great technology bubble of 2012, alot has happened since the glory days.
The US after recovering from the collapse of the dollar, and finally voting out the far left wing government that has been ruling ever since the baby boom generation has kept them in power, has finally broken there ties and now have voted in a more moderate government that has agreed to keep the interests of both the baby boom generation and the new younger generation.
A funny thing has happened, while everyone was concerned about the baby boom generation’s effect on the economy no one really noticed the echo baby boomer’s sneaking up and ambushing the economy, the oldest of the echo boomer’s have just turned 42 and are now starting to take top level positions in companies and in the government.
While the war on terror still rages on, the major turning point was when France declared marshall law after an uprising from the north Africa community which now represents 20% of the french population. This turning point was the begging of a global trend in the west, were the peoples started turning on the muslim community. This was a mistake with the mulism community making up 20% of all people in the world, it led to wide spread fighting all over the globe, not a traditional war, but a new advanced war.
People fought hard, community against community, man vs man, and company vs company. The people who lost the most were the poor, there was now a new modern form of warfare that has never been seen before…. financial warfare, where companies and the ultra elite rich would exploit the financial systems of countries and literally bankrupt a country over night. The internet allowed people to transfer massive amounts of money with a single click.
Finally a peace treaty is worked out among all democratic communities, even the recently joined China, which has only held on to democracy for 3 years now, the world realized that you could not single out a terrorist by their religion, now they have realized that the “evil doers” come in all shapes and sizes.
Something is different on this day, something changed, it was only a small article on the news that day and had only been read by 700,000 readers (a very small figure for a online news service with worldwide subscriber base of more than 200million) but apparently William (Bill) Gates the III (now 65) has decided to give windows away to the open source community. In a move that only a decade earlier would have been considered ludacris, the decision almost made sense. The company Microsoft only dervies about 10% of it’s annual income from the operating system sales and now obtains almost 90% from “web services”.
It was still a controversial move and shareholders let Bill Gates know how they felt and sold Microsoft’s stock off to end the day down 20% the largest one day decline in the company’s history. The company’s operating system was now only being used in third world countries, as the rest of the world switched to the direct net system, where any program could be run online.