Zooropa
Voorsprung durcht technik
Zooropa
Be all that you can be
Be a winner
Eat to get slimmer
Zooropa
A bluer kind of white
Zooropa
It could be yours tonight
We're mild and green
And squeaky clean
Zooropa
Better by design
Zooropa
Fly the friendly skies
Through appliance of science
We've got that ring of confidence

And I have no compass
And I have no map
And I have no reason
No reason to get back
And I have no religion
And I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit
The limit of what we've got

Don't worry, baby
It'll be all right
You've got the right shoes
To get you through the night
It's cold outside
But brightly lit
Skip the subway
Let's go to the overground
Get your head out of the mud, baby
Put flowers in the mud, baby
Overground!

No particular place-names
No particular song
I've been hiding
What am I hiding from?

Don't worry, baby
It'll be all right
Uncertainty
Can be our guiding light
I hear voices
Ridiculous voices
I'm in the slipstream
Let's go, let's go overground
Get your head out of the mud, baby

She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud

--U2, "Zooropa," 1993

THE 21st CENTURY

• World War III: UN vs. New Soviet Bloc
• Emergence of new world powers
• Growth of international megacorporations
• Establishment of the Matrix
• Electromagnetic Pulse weapons
• Development of Direct Neural Interface
• The first true artificial intelligences
• Perfection of cloning
• Establishment of the Registry
• Centralization of UN governmental authority
• Fully autonomous androids

THE 22nd CENTURY

• Orbital, Lunar, Jovian and Martian colonies
• Expansion of cybertech
• Transdermal DNI
• SimStim^tm: Simulated Stimulation
• Replicant androids
• Power Armor
• Corporate Wars
• Crystal Palace
• GovWars: Corporations vs. UN
• Dissolution of UN and most national governmental authority
• Dissolution of the Registry
• Personal laser weaponry
• Gateway and The Beanstalk
• Gravity Drive