The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

Wired people should know something about wires.

For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.

It is the fate of operating systems to become free.

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.