What Is Gamma World?
This is a game about what comes after the end of the world as we know it. Despite accumulating prophecies of doom, humanity made it through the crises at the start of the 21st century. The development of very cheap and simple biotechnology unleashed a whole new revolution in science and technology, as dramatic as the Industrial Revolution two hundred years earlier. Biotech made it possible to eradicate nearly all disease, to ensure plentiful food and comforts of life for the world s population, even to restore extinct species to life and to heal the legacy of many centuries of environmental damage. Organic computers in turn discovered ways to make practical nanotechnology, and humanity began to work with the world atom by atom. Genuine artificial intelligence emerged from labs applying new materials and ways of connecting them; soon minds as smart or smarter than human ones were routinely embedded into everything from missile defense systems to car alarms and children s toys. Humanity
