Game of Games/Setting/Timeline

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One

Movies

 * Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings

Books

 * The Hobbit
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Silmarillion

Movies

 * Conan the Barbarian
 * Kull the Conqueror

Books

 * Conan: Red Nails

Recorded History
Turning Points and Key events of recorded history:

Economy

 * Global CryptoCurrency
 * Money becomes obsolete
 * Universal Global Minimum Income and Health Coverage

Environment

 * Orbital Debree becomes a serious Issue
 * Ocean Clean up Garbage Patches
 * New Diseases
 * Global Warming
 * Management of Weather / Weather Wars
 * Terra-forming efforts on Mars and Venus
 * Astronomic Events (solar Flares, SuperNova, ...)
 * Tectonic movement - Change in Continents

Science & Technology

 * New Computer / Human Interfaces based on Thought
 * Augmented Reality the norm in some societies
 * Nanomaterials
 * Bioengineer/Genetics
 * Improvements in Communication Technology
 * Self-Driving Vehicles / Spacecraft
 * Unified Theory of Everything (Physics)
 * Dark Energy / Matter
 * New fields, such as QuantumComputing, PsychoHistory
 * Time/Dimension Travel

Exploration

 * Ocean Exploration, Underwater Discoveries and Cities
 * Discoveries on Mars/Earth/Venus/Jupiter
 * Space Tourism
 * First Contact with Extraterrestrial Life Forms
 * New Engines

Politics

 * New Political Unions, and breakup of existing ones.
 * North/South or East/West split in the United States
 * Mars Government
 * Astroid Belt Legal Issues
 * Rise of Africa in the 21st Century

Other

 * Narcisistic Epidemic / Philosophy Wars
 * Impact of Genetic Changes due to influences of low gravity (Space and Mars)
 * United Nations Space Program
 * Laws and Ethics concerning Roborts and Replicants
 * New Global Organization determining Credentials / Careers (Global Communism)?
 * AI deity
 * Manipulation/Changing of History to "promote" the Future
 * Advances in philosophy Discovery that time and the self is an illusion
 * Shift in Concsiousness
 * AI becomes aware that Humans are not really conscious
 * War over new Resources like Helium-3
 * Venus becomes a prison planet (Like Australia)
 * Lucifer Project to ignite Saturn, and colonize it's moons (2010 Movie)
 * Colony Ship leaving Solar System
 * Astroid belt mining
 * Augmented Reality becomes the Norm (Austricied for non compliance)
 * Speed delilmiteds, driving aids, etc, ...
 * Vacation through Augmented Reality (Total Recall/Ready Player One)
 * Morph into Chrononauts
 * Develop Chronological Space (wikipedia of time and space) - Setting
 * Purposefully modification of history for political purposes
 * Life on different planets, due to augmented reality (changed senses) to match earth
 * Additional Senses added

Movies

 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * 2010
 * Alien, Aliens
 * Blade Runner
 * Europa Report
 * Interstellar
 * Matrix Series
 * Minority Report
 * Ready Player One
 * Stargate
 * Starship Troopers
 * Terminator

Books

 * Rondevous with Rama
 * Starship Troopers