Forum:BioShock - The Reality?

A curious place for me to make my first (and possibly only) edit here on this wiki but I think that fans of the series might be interested to read this news.

For those who not only enjoyed BioShock but also enjoyed its story and philosophical themes, a bitter smile of foreknowledge threatens at the bit of news reported upon today:World's first floating city set for Pacific Ocean by 2020. Billionaire PayPal founder, Peter Thiel says that the 'seafaring nation' will 'free the human race from politicians'.

''To build a city at the bottom of the sea? Insanity! But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the Parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society that they would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else''.

-- Andrew Ryan

Art has a curious habit of predicting history. Between Thiel and his Silicon Valley peers, we seem to be slowly getting a real life Art Deco sci-fi world of city-to-city rocket-ships, oceanic nations and people living in space. Even the time frame is often as predicted by the sci-fi writers of the 1920s and 1930s!