Works in the 1990s naturally assumed that from that point on the only murderous enemies Americans would have to worry about would be the odd Right-Wing Militia Fanatic, homicidal teenagers, and maybe the occasional petty dictator, but no one else. Instead of criminal anarchy or corporate governance, there's a lot more focus on how technology has come to permeate everyday life and challenge long-held conceptions of the individual and society as a whole. When the 1990s came around, the US economy recovered while the Japanese economy tanked end of the Cold War and subsequent collapse of many authoritarian communist regimes drastically changed the political picture of both the present and the future. This is often a linear extrapolation of national malaise or existing crises, so American works of the 1970s have endlessly skyrocketing crime and inner urban decay note true enough in places like Detroit, Michigan, but wildly wrong in general cities like NYC are safer today than ever before whereas the 1980s brought the notion that Mega Corps and Japan (especially Japanese megacorps) would rule the world. The Future, but not so far into it that you'd notice except for the abundance of Applied Phlebotinum. Caddicarus, on LEGO Drome Racers, which was released in 2002
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