[ WP ] The History textbooks you ordered finally arrive in the mail . However , you notice an error - these are the wrong edition . Instead of the 2014 Edition , you received the 2024 Edition . The last few chapters appear to be accurate .

`` Huh'', Jack muttered, looking at the date on the cover. 2024. It was an obvious error. 
 
 He glanced over the rest of the cover, a man in a futuristic looking space suit, standing on a barren red plain, waving at the camera. In the far background, there seemed to be some kind of large white dome. 
 
 *Photoshop is really amazing these days*, Jack reflected. He did n't bother trying to understand why the authors had chosen such a picture for the cover. 
 
 He glanced over at the homework assigned the day before, his signature lay hastily scrawled at the top, *Jack Hyannis*, and next to it in bright red ink `` D+'' 
 
 `` Might as well get started'', he sighed, opening the book. It resisted him in the way that only brand new books do. 
 
 This history exam was really going to be exhaustive, everything from 10,000BCE to 2014CE was fair game, the professor had told the class of half-asleep college freshmen. 
 
 Normally, Jack would n't have even paid enough attention to catch that, but his mom and dad had really been riding him about his grades. 
 
 `` Who cares?'' he had told them, `` I want to be an architect, I do n't need to know history''. 
 
 They did n't seem to accept his reasoning, and now he had actually ordered a textbook online, just to please them. 
 
 For the first two hours he really tried to study, but eventually with a yawn, he began to flip mindlessly forward through the tome. He had made decent progress, 700's CE, Charlemagne had lost him though. 
 
 Jack was surprised that there seemed to be a whole other chapter following the year 2014. 
 
 He read the headline of the chapter, `` World War III: 2016-2022''. Huh, a joke from the authors maybe. He scanned some of the paragraphs. 
 
 `` World War III was widely considered to be largely avoidable at the dawn of the 21st century. However, continued Russian aggression in eastern Europe, the annexation of East Ukraine in 2014, followed by the establishment of protectorate governments in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and a formal military alliance with India in 2015 set the stage for increased tensions across Eurasia. It has been speculated that the `` dirty warheads'' set off in Washington DC on April 22, 2016 were not actually planted by the Russians but by......'' 
 
 *What was this? * Jack questioned. *Some kind of prediction or a joke? * 
 
 The images of destruction, the mushroom clouds, the pictures of women and children with horrible burns labelled `` High dose exposure to radiation''. 
 
 This certainly was n't a funny joke. 
 
 Jack flipped ahead a few pages. `` 2021: The Tide Turns'' read the title. 
 
 `` A young man, named Jack Hyannis....''. 
 
 *No... * 
 
 ``... whose predictions about the course of the war up to that point had been eerily accurate was finally given full command over coalition forces, despite having no military training whatsoever. Managed to defeat the enemy forces in three vital engagements by exploiting.....'' 
 
 Jack slammed the book. 
 
 `` What..... The..... Fuck?
