OK, so maybe not Google specificly but some sort of search engin and point system.  I came up with this idea while trying to think of a senereo for a story.  I have been wanting to write a scifi story for a while.  So I started the “what if” line of thought.  My line went some thing like this, What if:

1. all of our basic needs were taken care of?  Some sort of minimum living standard is created.  Each person gets a room or apartment type dwelling in some sort of housing structure?  That space is heated, has running water, internet (by that time that will cover all media anyway) and any other needs.  Electricity/energy usage could be set for some free amount.  If you want more you have to pay for it.
2. medical became a non-issue?  Maybe every one gets any needed medical care they need. Perhaps nano-tech gets to the point of us not needing doctors?
3. food was easy to get?  No one would starve.  Maybe some minimum menu that included only healthy food you could really live on.  You could spend your entire life eating just that food and be healthy.  Any one asking would get any thing on that menu.  Maybe it is in the cafeteria of the housing structure.
4. our current monetary and banking system failed?  A dollar would be come worthless.  How would you get ahead with out “money”  Some thing would have to replace it.

What came to mind is instead of dollars or credits we have various points.  We could trade thos points for other needs and desires.  Some form of Google ranking meets MySpace/FaceBook.  You earn varius points and rankings and then trade those for things you want.  Lets use “good Samaritan points”  or GS for short.  You help some one move and they give you some GS.  On your way home you pick up some trash/ litter and this is cought on camera and posted to some video page.  A bunch of people give you some GS points.   You can earn them any way people decide to give them.  Now lets say the soup of the day in the cafeteria is getting boring and you want a good home cooked meal.  You look on line and find some one who has a restaurant with a high food prep ranking for the food you want.  You go there and you have to give up so many of your GS points.  Now the restaurant does not get them, they go away.  BUT if you like the food you grant some points to there good food ranking.  Now this could be expanded to almost all areas of life.

OK so it is some what utopian.  I don’t think it would really work in real life.  BUT I think it could make an interesting back drop for a SciFi book/show.  No matter how utopian a society is there will always be some one bucking the system.  Some one who is criminal just becasue they can or want to be.

Tom Storys SciFi, Story, Utopian

I imagine it started once we as humans started to have an imagination.  At that point we could start to imaging “what if?”  Both science and creating a good story start with the same question.  Also while science must be grounded in reality so must a good story.

Leonardo da Vinci made drawings of airplanes 400 years before the Wright brothers. One of his glider designs was later built and it flew!

In his novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne describes a nuclear submarine 70 years before the first real Nuclear sub was built.  The real one was named after the Nautilus in Vern’s story. It is also 20 years before nuclear power was starting to be discovered.

In other Sci Fi stories various futures are dreamed up.  Those futures range from utopia to post apocalypse.  What should scare you is that any of them are possible.  With imagination the writer has extrapolated what can happen from now till what ever is happening in the story.  Some of them are just fluff, violent fluff at that.  Some of them tho really are possible.  It is those that we should pay attention to.  Many of them are social commentary.  Others are telling of how past events could replay them selves in the future and how technology may affect the outcome.  Next time your watching a show where society is different than our own ask your self how did they get there and what can we do to be like that too, or should we do to prevent it.

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