According to the renegade scientist in Scattered, a sci-fi short film adapted from a story by author Ken MacLeod, itd be a place freed from the restrictions of human history. In this world, we look to the future, not the past, and some sort of modern human existence could be created based on all of the advancements that have brought us to where we are today. The original Ken MacLeod story, The Surface of Last Scattering, was published in the sci-fi anthology TFSF, which comes from the MIT Technology Review.