The future that appears to be coming instead, after we have thrown away all of those fantastic possibilities that the 1970s promised. The corporations are in control of your life. Of everything. If you don’t have (Lots and Lots of) money, you are little people. A victim of circumstances. Think Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins for the sorts of world where the rich have won and everyone else has lost and must often dance for their supper. Or otherwise overcome a deck that has been stacked against them. Where life is cheap and ugly, except for the pretty people with a lot of money.