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    While some science fiction does attempt to predict future social structures, a lot of the mass market stuff mixes gee-whiz gadgets with a social and economic system from the present, if not the past.

    Examples are numerous and include freelance trading video games set in space, the Star Wars movies, and 1960s illustrations of space stations filled with ranch houses and families with 2.5 kids.

    The inverse, that of modern social norms with pre-modern technology, is often augmented with the introduction of magic, which fulfills a similar function as high technology.

    Modern economics are even rarer, and when used it is generally as parody.

    Is it because its simply boring or hard to understand, or is it beacuse it is the main thing from which escape is desired?
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    There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
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