This got me thinking: Near the conclusion of Deus Ex 2, you find that JC Denton, the protagonist from the first game, is attempting to construct a perfect democracy. He believes that men can never be truly equal, as long as some are born with greater abilities than others. Through infecting the entire human race with nanobots, everyone will be super-intelligent and physically flawless. To create a system of government, every person will be linked to a single artificial consciousness, which Denton likens to Tocqueville's "Mind of God," that will instantly and intimately understand every person's needs and desires, and construct society so as to best fulfill them. After I beat the game, I got on Wikipedia and looked up "futurism."
On a more recent note, I liked reading the encyclopedia entries in Mass Effect. Some of its pretty interesting stuff. I think BioWare hired some subject matter experts to write some of it. Reading through the sections on the military, an area in which I have some expertise, I remember thinking that I doubt a game designer would know this stuff without doing a lot of research.
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