10 year-old Civilization II game predicts grim future for
humanity  Ben Parfitt 10 year-old Civilization II game predicts
grim future for humanity  A game of Civilization II that has run
for ten years has offered a depressing prediction for humanity’s
future.  Reddit user Lycerius has reached the year 3991 AD and
describes the world that has resulted as “a hellish nightmare of
suffering and devastation” ruled by the three remaining super
nations who are “competing for the scant resources left on the
planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of
the world uninhabitable wastelands”.  “Big cities are a thing of
the distant past,” Lycerius writes. “Roughly 90 per cent of the
worlds population (at it's peak 2000 years ago) has died either
from nuclear annihilation or famine caused by the global warming
that has left absolutely zero arable land to farm.   The world’s
ice caps have apparently melted over 20 times leaving all land
that isn’t mountainous swampy and useless for farming.  A 1,700
year