I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
Iain BanksOur lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances โ and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse โ then you don't have life after death; you just have death.
Iain BanksThe History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END
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