Asimov's laws of robotics and Herbert's Dune foreshadowed the troubles we are facing now and have been largely ignored. It appears fiction does nothing to guide us when it comes to technology; no matter how prescient or widely read. Consider this when writing your idealist drivel.

Crimes of the Future also had people eating plastic bricks

With gut microbes handling the plastic degradation to proteins? :-D

Interesting concept. I would like to read this in an epub file outside of amazon if you're willing to accept outside payment.

Hey... Thanks for the interest, but right now, it is being offered exclusively on Amazon as it is a part of the KDP Select programme.