Idly imagining a world where Facebook and Twitter don’t exist, the world’s biggest social platform is http://Blogger.com  with over three billion users, where people write “blog posts”, owned by independent company “Pyra”, and Google is a small search engine company.

Google’s second most popular product after its search engine (which does not sell ads) is something called “Reader”, allowing users to quickly read many different “weblogs” as well as other websites from the New York Times all the way to photos posted from phones at “Flickr”

Early on in Blogger’s life, a feature called “reblog” (codenamed “backtrack”) was launched, allowing a vital ecosystem of smaller “weblog companies” to thrive and seamlessly exchange users’ “blog posts” with each other.

Making waves is a company called "Amazon" which after starting out selling books, has become an employee-owned partnership, bringing independent store-owners around the world together in one place.

After consistent profitability and with significant reserves in the bank, Amazon's members make an offer to buy Starbucks, a minor coffee chain, and convert it to the same employee-owned partnership.

Following Amazon's example and acting on concerns about the long-term sustainability of software developers, Apple launches a Small Business App Store on all of its platforms.

With a presence in most towns and cities around the world, the Amazon and Starbucks employee-owned partnerships realize they can use their technology to improve transport. Over a number of years, they offer their employee-owned technology experience to taxi companies and drivers.

A user of Blogger writes a post about the games industry, decrying "social justice issues". The post is not amplified due to intentional decentralization. Someone tries to mine Blogger's data to produce a "blog index" to show trends, but sociologists at Blogger discourage it.

Google, through its "Reader" website, tries a second attempt to show its users what the most popular blog posts are. Citing research on amplification of hate, Blogger turns off Google's API access until the feature is turned off.

An anonymous blogger writes a whisteblowing post about a degrading website spreading at Harvard, where users are encouraged to "rate women" after the college administration fails to act. Over the next two weeks the post spreads, and the creator of the website is expelled.

Citing the disproportionate social good created and spread by the "Amazon Employee-Owned Model", Pyra co-founders Ev Williams and Meg Hourihan write a blog post intending to turn over ownership of "Blogger" to its members. The members ask the team to continue managing the site.

The U.S. is the target of a series of coordinated terrorist attacks. 2,977 people die. Under dubious intelligence, the attack is used to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Employee-Owned Amazon Model companies across the U.S. are outraged and start organizing in local politics.

While the war in Iraq intensifies, President George W. Bush and the Republican Party are massively outspent by organized decentralized workers. Long term Democrats and emerging left-wing Democrats win unified control of Congress.

However, the Democratic takeover of Congress was not a landslide. Emboldened by their success at local organizing, existing and new, left-wing Democrats embark on a campaign to take back State governorships and legislatures, having identified gerrymandering as a key issue.

The Amazon Employee-Owned Model makes its technologies open source, freely licensing them to State governments. Employee members take their "relentlessly focussed on the customer" ethos into government. Within a few years, the standard of living in key cities has improved.

Meanwhile, increasing numbers of citizens are becoming concerned about climate change. In August 2004, a Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane hits the city of New Orleans. President G.W. Bush flubs the response, and over 2,200 die.

Cities and states influenced by the "Employee-Owned" model, infused with technology, rising revenue and higher living standards race to New Orleans and Louisiana, sending aid, supplies and infrastructure.

Their response forms the template for a last-minute Democratic Party Green New Deal Manifesto.

In November 2004, partially on the back of the horror and response to the hurricane, the Democratic Party wins the Presidential election and retains control of congress.

The November 2004 Turning Point Landslide provokes rural and low-income America into a defensive state. Egged on by conservative broadcasters, some counties start sliding into extremism.

Democratic States are the first to act. With increasing revenue and quality of life, a compact of three States offers a no-strings Universal Basic Income of $1,200/month to non-state residents in 100 trial counties.

Within three months, Congress follows up announcing a phased introduction of UBI over a twelve month period, the All Americans Are Deserving Act.

The 2005 Green New Deal Act injects nearly a trillion dollar's worth of stimulus into the American economy. Focusing on skills training in economically deprived areas and a rapid conversion from fossil fuels, the Act also starts strategic investment in American manufacturing.

Over the summer of 2005, wildfires devastate California. Thousands are displaced. The hurricane season hits again, wreaking havoc in Texas, leaving thousands dead again.

The Green New Deal is savagely attacked. The President addresses the nation:

"It's true. Things will get worse before they get better. We will lift ourselves up and keep going, because we do this work not for ourselves, but for future generations. For all our children."

The Green New Deal website crashes after the President's address.

Around the country, millions of inspired volunteers sign up to help out.

An L.A. Times journalist, a Saudi dissident, goes missing.

Days later, they are found dead, dismembered. Intelligence reports indicate the involvement of the Saudi government.

The administration confronts Saudi Arabia, condemning the killing.

Then, the unexpected.

The President surprises Congress by unilaterally announcing the extension of the Green New Deal to Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries.

Following the outcry, the President addresses the nation again:

"Last month, I promised you that we do this work not for ourselves, but for future generations. For all our children. I meant it. All of humanity's children. It is our responsibility to be a beacon for everyone."

In exchange for participation in the Global Green New Deal, Salman of Saudi Arabia makes the decision to hand over the implicated Crown Prince for trial in a neutral third party country.

Despite being broadcast, the Crown Prince's trial in Paris, France has negligible viewers.

It is overshadowed by the London Olympics, whose opening ceremony, directed by Danny Boyle, was presided over by Prime Minister Nick Clegg, of the Clegg-Cameron coalition government.

Making significant political capital from the invitation of the U.S.'s first Female President to join the Global Green New Deal, Nicholas Clegg and the Liberal Democrats soundly win the 2014 United Kingdom General Election.