created in 1988 by maicon smith, it started life asa maicon smith, it started life as a tabletop role—playingplaying franchise. and in doing so managed to predict much of the world we live in today. it's just much of the world we live in today. it'sjust amazing. the problem becomes we don't know how to vet it, we don't know how to vet it, we don't know how to vet it, we don't know how to tell what's going to be true. for example, iwrote how to tell what's going to be true. for example, i wrote a variation of cyberpunk called cyberpunk p three, where primarily messages what happens when we an information collapse and people are able to pick their own information to build realities. so we have what's called cultural cough, where people are fighting, my reality is better than your reality, and here is what really happened back in 1962 or something. well, we are there. looking at it right now, worldwide people are rewriting realities and there is nothing out there to really balance that out so people are going to have to become a lot smarter. pondsmith‘s table—top fiction has been digitally reali