Current mood:	weird
Current music:	All Along The Watchtower
Entry tags:	scifi, writing

Globe Quiz
Foreign Policy brings up some ideas contradictory to the things I have, but it's good to bring in another viewpoint once in a while. And they have things like this, which make me think:

Globe Quiz, disturbing but educational.

I'm currently going through the list of answers, and I don't like most of the things I'm hearing. It gives me some odd science fiction ideas, though, such as the list of countries in which humanitarian workers were killed. Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Chad and Iraq.

Though I have a deep interest in South Asia, I have to wonder, are Somalia and Afghanistan really places to write about, or should I find something else? Using Sterling's tactic of 'one step ahead', what is the world going to look like when the situations in Afghanistan and Somalia finish? What will they look like, and what will the consequences be?

Connect that to question 3, that of "1 billion people go hungry every day." If one doesn't get a wince out of you, the other might. Connect that with slums, and that "more people live in urban places that rural", and a world starts to shape itself.