“Our society will shift from the 9-5 rat race to a society that focuses on the creation of art, love, and travel around the planet and to other worlds.”
This sounds very much like the plot in Arthur C. Clarke’s book “Childhoods End”
Good SciFi reading
Now for something completly different, but dealing with spacecraft:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2178583/posts
But plenty of seductiveness from hell in all that bunch of stuff.
And Deception.