aluminiumtrioxid,
The recently released players guide "Transhuman" has a lfiepath chargen that seems to be less painful than the main book's. While it isn't an excuse there's hope for one button chargen with the Singularity program being developed for Posthuman Studios by Snowdog Labs.
http://www.snowdoglabs.com/doghouse/rpgtools/singularity
In regards to story seeds there are bunch of cool ideas in that setting being blogged at Farcast. http://www.farcastblog.com/