If a video game designed to predict the presidential election is correct, then Donald Trump will take the White House. I played Stardock's'The Political Machine,' which forecasted Trump's shock win in 2016, to see what America could expect once the polls close Tuesday night. The simulation is a turn-based, map-trotting game -- not unlike'Risk' or any other tabletop game of political strategy -- except the board itself reacts to you and your opponent's moves based on historic turnout data, debate focus groups and more. The game's makers claim it'relies heavily on demographic issue patterns' like job, race, sex and income level to determine'what issues [voters] care about,' data the team has updated regularly ever since they created the first edition back in 2004. Initially, I found the game confusing, complicated and frankly dorky, but in time I was enthusiastically buying up local ads, setting up campaign offices and hiring'smear merchants' to spread devious rumors about my opponent: Donald J. Trump.

Robots will be used to suppress attempts by the masses to rise up, a CEO who works with artificial intelligence has warned. Brad Wardell, founder of software company Stardock, said that automation will replace more and more jobs; but the elite few left with all the wealth will be able to crush any attempts to rebel with an array of security machines. "My day job is to evaluate technology and try to predict where it's going to go next," Wardell said in a blog post published Monday. "And with that, I am telling you the automation revolution isn't happening soon. Initiatives aimed at protecting workers made obsolete – like the universal basic income – are not a given, especially if those in charge of the machines don't have any incentive to worry about the working class. With adequate protection for accumulated wealth, Wardell believes the societal shift brought about by automation could be catastrophic. "What we do as a civilization, will define my generation," Wardell said. "I pray we figure it out.