Four miles west of where Andrew Cook received his 2nd coffee, James Sallis climbed the set of stairs that must've cost at least 2.5 million dollars to design and construct. He thought of the principle of spending that much on just a stairwell. Of course this was no ordinary  stairwell...

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 ...

In front of the cafe they were greeted by Imogen Howe who was standing outside as if waiting for them old school style like people used to for someone at the train station before smartphones and gps .

Jake Raynor didn't know how to approach the greeting. He didn't actually...