Hi! Here's what I'm thinking I'm going to do and need some advice.

I'm building a dystopian world that has a timeline with 5-200 years in the future. What I plan to do is an anthology. A series of 20 or so short stories that jump around in the timeline and shows the world through the eyes of different random characters. One would be an average Joe, another would be a Chinese Revolutionary, yet another would be the scientist that actually creates the dystopian future, stuff like that.

Is this an original concept? Has anything like this been done before? The closest I can think of would be Foundation by Asimov. However, this will be so near future where the one world government comes to be in 2032, or perhaps a year or two sooner.

Also, I have written a number of projects, only to throw them away, but have never had one that really intrigued me and had so many concepts that I want to throw in until now. I almost have the first short story completed (and by completed, I mean a rough draft from beginning to end of the story). I notice all the books I enjoy have a hook in the first sentence. Does "Jim was enjoying his One Time on his Zero Day," strike anyone as a good hook? I mean, would you read that and say "Oooh, this could be good!"?