2036
The bad part of 2020 was not the sickness. It was the companies fighting over it afterward, until the money stopped. Then the riots. Then the government was just gone.
AI is around. VR too. Neither one ended the world. They are tools, same as a radio. The world went to shit in 2030, and new machines stopped that year. We still have everything from before. Just nobody left to tell us we can't use it.