Your hosts give you a fine bedroom with large windows overlooking the park on one side. 

On another wall is a beautiful painting of the California seacoast. When you push a button, the painting folds up to the ceiling, revealing a large screen. Your room contains a computer terminal that enables you to select any movie or other program you desire from over 10,000 possibilities. There are even films where you are the main character and you can make choices as to what will happen next in the story. Then, if you don’t like the way the plot is working out, you can go back to an earlier point and make different choices from then on.

On your terminal you can also play games and flash pages of books or magazines on the screen. You can live quite well without even getting out of bed.

Eventually you go exploring. You meet other people, but you find none of them very interesting, so you spend most of your time watching the greatest movies of all time. Gradually you settle into your new life. One thing disturbs you. No one has made any new movies in the last 300 years.