CNN iReport

Imagine that it is the summer of 2016. The price of gasoline has stabilized at $3.00 a gallon and electric cars—along with natural-gas powered vehicles--fill America’s roadways. A new hydrogen-powered furnace has just become available for widespread domestic use. Combined with solar panels and miniaturized wind turbines, this new technology promises unlimited energy for minimal cost.

Thirty million new jobs have been created since 2010, over half of them in the manufacturing sector, the remaining positions divided among high-tech, international, and service start-ups. Average family income has reached a peak for the twenty-first century. The mortgage and real estate crisis of the late 2010s is a distant memory. More Americans, as a real number and as a percentage of the population, own their own homes than at any other time in history.

America’s standing in the world has never been higher. Our relationship with our European allies has given way to a version of NATO that includes countries reaching across the Mediterranean and deep into the former Russian republics. President Obama has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize after the détente he has established with a new Iranian leader, with the moderate Hezbollah faction in Lebanon, and with the post-revolutionary parliament in North Korea. Those who argue against Obama’s Peace Prize cite his crushing defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan and his 2012 capture of a frail Osama Bin Laden, not in a cave but in a dingy hotel room in Peshawar.

Vice-president Biden has announced that he will not campaign for the presidency in the upcoming election and has hinted that he will throw his support behind former Virginia governor Mark Warner. Michelle Obama has been mentioned as a potential running mate for Warner, or for Hillary Clinton, Warner’s leading opponent in a series of hotly contested primaries. The Boston Red Sox have just won their third World Series in a row.

This is the world that a lot of us would now like to create. We are not dreaming. We are just looking ahead. See you at the polls.