By 2010 the world had become unrecognizable. On the surface.

Peer deeper and you'd see how things were changing less.

The details were changing. smartphones , increasingly  global economies,  electric vehicles , and promises of  self-driving cars.

But what actually mattered had calcified further.

Sebastian thought this while sipping through the middle of his ...

He estimated his car to have burned around 5,300 gallons of gasoline . This was based on the fact that it got 23 miles per gallon locally and 30 MPG on the highway.

The odometer approached 135,000 miles. The visualization of that number provided some sense of joy. Like no matter...