Completely. Osmotic, though, so I don’t know until later.

Flat in Kensington, twice a week to Icelend, happily married, two kids.

Like the world minus that. See the British Empire, et al. Footprints remain.

I know you don’t like Mr. Robot as a title (you are correct, my coworkers spent an entire year thinking it was a show about a robot) but did you ever get around to seeing it and if so what do you think of the way it portrays our own real-life dystopia?

You’ve written in the past about how Japan no longer seems to have a monopoly over the American imagination in terms of “the future.” Does the idea of a heavily Japanese influenced future still influence you and your work?

You’ve always been very cautious about characterizing your extrapolations of the future as “dystopian”.