How might a shift towards city-states feudalise the architectures of trust against a backdrop of biosecurity management and computable money?
Scenario 4: Tribes and Heatwaves
In this scenario the severity of climate change leads to massive disasters. The main drivers of change are market-driven and technological. Crime and dark technologies are dominant. A shift from nations towards city-states feudalize societal trust architectures. The hardship of working under unbearable heat compounds the hybrid transformation of currencies, freed from central states control. Our relationship with health, biosecurity and segregation are tested in the context of continuous pandemics.