Instead, they find themselves right at the center of it.
When he wakes up in hospital after an explosion and finds that his wife and son have mysteriously vanished, Richard realizes: he and his family have become more than just bystanders in a storm of rivaling ideas pertaining humankind’s salvation between dystopian reality and digital utopia. Richard Nolan is one of the few journalists openly criticizing this development. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Ambrosia, a synthetic vaccine manufactured by the company VersaLife, nullifies the effects of the virus but is in critically short supply.
A lethal pandemic, known as the Gray Death, has ravaged the worlds population, especially within the United States, and has no cure. About This Game When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?īerlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Setting Main article: Deus Ex backstory Set in the year 2052, Deus Ex depicts a cyberpunk-themed dystopian world.
