THE JACKPOT - "Androgenic, systemic, multiplex apocalypse"

Clip from a 2022 series based on William Gibson's "The Jackpot" trilogy. The book describes the jackpot as an “androgenic, systemic, multiplex” event that has no beginning or end. It is hard to pinpoint when exactly it started because it wasn’t just one cataclysmic event that changed everything. It was a group of events, happening simultaneously or in succession that led to a lot of deaths and a steep downfall in the population. In an interview with Wired, Gibson commented about the slow death of the world in his novel. “It posits an apocalypse that takes centuries to get rid of us. We don’t seem to have any cultural wherewithal to deal with that. We usually think of the apocalypse as though it’s the ultimate bad day,” he said. Considering the current situation of the world, he let go of his optimism of a better world in the future, saying that after reaching a certain age, sci-fi writers tend to acquire the “everything is going to hell in a hand basket” perspective. “All my life I’ve been writing myself reminders not to do that. But now I look around, and for the first time it’s true,” Gibson added.
https://thecinemaholic.com/what-is-the-jackpot-in-the-peripheral-explained/

SEE HEINLEIN'S SHORT STORY "THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Jackpot
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1952-03/Galaxy_1952_03#page/n5/mode/2up

Q.V. ROCKEFELLER 2010 LOCKSTEP https://archive.org/details/the-annotated-rockefeller-foundation-lockstep-2010
"Lockstep," described a fictional pandemic that would infect 20% of the world in 2012, killing eight million people in just seven months.