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We may assume that World War II went to completion, that [[Communism]] took hold throughout Western Europe, South America, and elsewhere, and that Mr. Thompson, far from objecting, welcomed the change. One thing that does ''not'' bear mention is the establishment of the Republic of [[Israel]]. In fact, Israel was very close to being a People's State at its inception, the usual community being the ''kibbutz'', which was by definition a collectivistic community. The [[Galt's Gulch|Atlantis]]-like community that John Galt establishes is, if anything, the anti-kibbutz.
We may assume that World War II went to completion, that [[Communism]] took hold throughout Western Europe, South America, and elsewhere, and that Mr. Thompson, far from objecting, welcomed the change. One thing that does ''not'' bear mention is the establishment of the Republic of [[Israel]]. In fact, Israel was very close to being a People's State at its inception, the usual community being the ''kibbutz'', which was by definition a collectivistic community. The [[Galt's Gulch|Atlantis]]-like community that John Galt establishes is, if anything, the anti-kibbutz.
Today a film adaptation exists (see below). The screenwriters elected to set the story in America of 2016. In that scenario:
# Americans have ''abandoned'' airline travel and once again depend on the railroads to move people and freight.
# Television, including Community Antenna Television ("cable"), is the preferred medium of mass communications.
# The [[Middle East]] has dissolved into continual warfare and cut itself and its oil supplies off from the rest of the world. (What has become of [[Israel]], the film does not say. Equally likely, another "[[Arab Spring]]" has set tribe against tribe.)
# Diesel-electric engines are the preferred type of locomotive, but one scene features a next-generation locomotive capable of "bullet train" speeds.
# The [[United States Navy]] is almost certainly downsized, so that, as in the novel, Ragnar Danneskjold can hijack cargoes with impunity. What sort of vessel he commands, the film does not reveal.
Everything else in the film is as it was in the novel.
==Criticism==
==Criticism==