Leda And The Eddy

2025: The impact of artificial intelligence has been more rapid and dramatic than anyone had expected. Too preoccupied by a global arms race of autonomous weaponry, the government has failed to support workers learn new skills to switch jobs. It is women, the high-skilled workers who had outnumbered men at universities, who now outnumber men in the workforce.

Marriage and birth rates continue to plummet, unemployment rates rocket. AI proves efficient and cheap. Those with jobs enjoy a low cost of living but government taxing of wealthy companies does not keep pace with the need to support those without. Riots erupt in the metropolises. Arsonists light the nightly skies.

A new government wins unprecedented power in a landslide election on a promise to restore social harmony...