Редактирование: Altered Carbon (раздел)

=== Social consequences ===
Not only is the setting of Altered Carbon highly critical of the Meth's social, economic and moral positions, the back story features 'the uprising' attempting and failing to prevent this state of affairs 250 years ago by modifying stack technology. Their failed attempt to artificially limit human life spans to 100 years would have immediately killed millions in the world of Altered Carbon, as well as billions in the future, making their ambitions highly [[deathism|deathist]], despite well intentioned socially-minded ambitions.

Irreversible concentration of wealth and power was predicted and is depicted as a direct consequence of the life-extended stack technology, rather than a failure of economic, political or social policy making it an archetypal example of [[oligarchic transhumanism]].

The [[Blade Runner]]-esque [[cyberpunk]] setting is rife with corruption, sexual exploitation, pollution, poverty, drug abuse and dehumanisation all appearing to stem from the Meth-dominated economic system.