Back then, of course, none of us had the personal jet packs or robot butlers that have become so commonplace since the world entered the 21st Century. We all each have our own computer-controlled robot cars too, to get us to work – for those that want to work – at our jobs supervising the computers, intelligent machines and robots that do all the actual work. Although, for most of us life is just one long round of pleasurable activities interspersed with intellectual endeavour towards personal fulfilment, especially as we all now seem to have intellects that would once have seemed out of the ordinary only last century and bodies that would – in those long ago days – only be found on Olympic athletes.
Of course, we have the cheap, clean and environmentally-friendly power from nuclear fusion that makes all this possible, while the use of hover cars means that we no longer need roads. Therefore, the countryside between our dwelling places, whether we choose to live in urban or rural areas, is green with fields, forests, moors and hedgerows, while our rivers sparkle and teem with fish and other aquatic life. The clean quiet energy we use means that the air is now filed with birdsong and our music has grown quiet and harmonious as if to match it.
With no more poverty and the idiocies of religious* strife behind us, there is no more terrorism, and crime seems almost quaint and non-existent.
It does – at times – almost seem like we have found the perfect life, here in this perfect world of the 21st Century.
*After a cure for the viruses that cause both religion and politics was discovered.
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