Story Ideas

Timeline
Mid 21st century cataclysm - war/emp/AI wipe out technological civ
Next 200 years - people struggle to live at pre industrial level
Mid 23rd century - people recover from dark ages

Scenarios
Discovery of stored memory of human download consiousness
Blueprint for new society without: beaurocracy, capitalism, war, crime, greed
Individuals and groups who seek to reunite with others
New technologies and culture similar to ours but where everyone is included, no one excluded
Examples: free access libraries negate need for superfluous possessions, inclusion negates desire for crime, compact devices with multifunctions (like phone/TV/Net/Brainwave enhancers)

Plots
Finding a new device that is used to download or upload from a brain to a machine
Coping with a group of people who have reverted to cavemen
Cryogenic storage unit and implications for thawed characters
Daily life of a man or woman living in the new society and variations to ours
Challenges of linking between disparate societies and countries at different levels of society

Format
Series of short stories and short novels linked by cultural development and comparison with similar circumstances in the past (for example why no one uses money anymore)