A Better World

I haven't been doing this very long, and so far I've mostly been pretty negative. I want to change that. I can be a grumpy person, but I don't think I'm an inherently negative one. So I tried pondering some positive things, and one of the ideas that lurks in my head is about the world I want to live in. This is not a political manifesto, or any kind of idea that could lead to...well...reality. Its just my imagination run amok.
Most of my thoughts about the ideal world come from me mis-overhearing (did I just coin a word? If so, its a bad one, don't use it) things, although a few of them come from cranky and elitist moods, and a couple others acutally come from ideology. Oh, and there are somethat come from nowhere, but crack me up. Giant robots anyone? But I want the kind that hide from you in the shadow of an apartment building and remain completely unseen by the tenants inside- and they have to be easily defeated by weakling asthmatics like myself. As mind-crushingly awesome as they are, there is no place for Skynet or Cylons in my ideal world, because they would end me.
Once, at work, I was reading a manual of some kind- rules and regulations, that sort of thing. It included updates. One of them appeared, to me, to say "present practices with respect to time travel shall be continued." That was not, in fact, what it said. But it gave me the dream of a world where time travel is so common that it has POLICY. What kind of policy are we talking? The sky (or the space-time continuum) is the limit! Does your workplace reimburse you for business time travel? Hells yeah! Time travel is no excuse for being late- and I don't care what time it was when you LEFT for work! The possibilities are endless. I should write a novel or something.
They also refer to the email system in my place of business as the Portal. Is that not amazing? So I get an email telling me that I will be notified when the Portal opens again. Portal to where? Like Narnia? (hopefully not a world full of Christian allegory, that would be The Most Disappointing and Morally High Handed Portal Ever) Or like Stargate? Should I put down my stapler to prepare for and epic battle with a disgruntled Egyptian god? Or Khan?
In this world, everything that happens to me has another, better, more interesting meaning (not to imply that the grinding struggle to find meaning in everyday existence isn't worthy of pursuit and intellectual toil...it just doesn't make my day go much faster). There's always a door to somewhere, something to learn, or just see. We all wish our lives had a more obvious meaning. It would be thrilling to live Harry Potter for a little while rather than Kafka.
In conclusion, if I ever get a vote, I want giant robots, time travel, magic portals, talking gargoyles, Sherlock Holmes, and telepathy. Clones are optional, depending on if its emo clones or fun ones.