Fictional Future

The following is an except from a history of the future

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After the flu pandemic of 2023 and the jihad wars that followed, humanity was finally ready for a change. When faced with great peril and the very real consequences of human alteration of the climate people begin to wake up and see if things didn’t change and didn’t change quickly humanity might not make it through the rest of the century. With the success of Meta states people were no longer tied to the whims of classical geographical nation states. The Contract had eliminated the need for top down leadership driven by power, it was replaced with local, regional and global cyber Contract based confederations. The Contract provided the framework for real free trade and commerce to all cosigners of the contract. Under this new framework of interconnected e-society the collective good and personal freedoms were both provided for. Everyone growing up in this new world learned that when they were ready they could choice the Contract that wished to join. Once part of a Contract they had the rights to submit modifications to the contract as they felt were needed. Or leave the Contract to find one that better met their needs. The largest Contracts were the EnlightenedCommercialist, theGreens, and the FreeUrbanites, but there were many others, the neoChristains the postZionists where but a hand full of groups still clinging to the idea of the theocratic state and in a sense they finally achieved it. But fewer and fewer people still followed the old world religions given that most of the holy places were now great radioactive valleys of glass and ash and yet God never lifted a finger to stop the destruction.

Tara-forming once the dream of off world colonies is now a necessity on earth to reverse the effects of centuries of mans excesses. Most people born in the early part of the century who had lived through the great cataclysms of the 20’s and 30’s were stunned at just how quickly the world came together to face these growing problems. Once the old centers of power fell apart net communities filled the gap. These communities became real communities in the form of the Contract and opens-source lightweight framework for net enabled democracy. The more connected and involved in the process people became the more effective the new framework became. These new communities formed around common interests rather then the arbitrary accident of birth.