• The world politicians no longer need a COVID method to control their economies.
  
• All parties and alliances have been eradicated.
  
• Big Bro and the Young Socialists have taken over.
  
• A world is divided into Big Bro zones of robotic control to maintain world peace.
  

• William's family has been separated by Big Bro.
  
• All communications are controlled by Big Bro's propaganda.
  
• Turning 40, William knows he will be biologically changed by the government.
  
• All people over 40 are getting mandatory surgery that makes them see in black and white.
  
• William knows its much worse than simply color blindness.
  
• To save his family, William must find out the secret of Big Bro's control around the world.
  

This is a world, William soon discovers, where getting social security has become a reality show fight to the death. Prostitutes are "safe sex" androids. Drones control everything. Companies are serving a new master.

Who's behind Big Bro, and what will become of people of color and William's family?

Read LIFE IN 2050 by James Musgrave.

Up ahead stands the tall skyscraper-the only one allowed-of the Young Socialists' Ministry of Mindfulness. This is where William works, and it is also broadcasting the libertarian message of the party, in ten-foot letters, running every ten seconds across the huge digital banner in front of the building:

WAR IS IN THE PAST

FREEDOM IS ALWAYS TODAY

IGNORANCE IS IN WRITTEN HISTORY