Outline an attractive future

[mindstalk]

I thought this might be of more interest to readers who *don't* hang around James's LJ; I feel readily able to imagine a nice future but hard put to making it interestingly distinguished from James' Nightmarish Future (if I explained it to you now, it'd defeat the point of this, wouldn't it?) or various SF settings I mentioned (Culture, THS).

Plus I should go to bed; the hotel cleaning staff gets annoyed when I sleep in.