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From Wikiversity
Linux is ubiquitous. It's just too easy to use. Programming Linux has become so easy. Its a bit like pure love, or gourmet chocolate at your finger tips. To modify the system for your own personal needs is trivial. It is so laughably easy. Like you see how easy it is, and you really just can't help laughing, simply out of sheer joy!
The world has settled down and is all calm and nice now. After the turbulence of the twentieth century, and the first part of the twenty-first century, things just sort of quieted down. It was really strange, come to think of it. No one felt a need to keep fighting each other. Violence became passé and sort of unpopular.
Biogasoline and other biofuels replaced gasoline. Iran and other states ran out of money, and they just sort of went the way of North Korea and accepted concessions from the rest of the world in exchange for the monitoring of their nuclear program. Everyone agreed that they are horrible devices.
Governments have had increasing amounts of transparency throughout the world, and due to these transparencies, nuclear arsenals are at an all time low. Some other really interesting stuff is happening.
Collaboration had taken over. Wiki technology had enabled it. People were able to decide on what basic needs had to be met and they figured out a way to meet them - for everyone. There was clean water, sanitation, physical security, food, shelter, health. It was all able to be met. It's not like capitalism did not still prosper, it was sort-of not-quite-really an alternative that came along side what currently existed. And they existed in harmony.
One day, cheap satellites were launchable. Systems that could track satellites and avoid collisions were ubiquitous. People started selling modular satellites and they would come up with these novel applications. Don't ask how, but somehow, people started finding earth like planets in droves. First there was more than a trickle.. then a flow, then hundreds, then thousands.
