Chapter Thirty-Eight
October 17, 2228, Neo Southern California Metroplex, Commerce Tower 32
Wandering through the dense crowd of people thronging a retail floor in a tower always reminded Erik that Jia might be naïve, but his pessimism didn’t always reflect reality.
Human nature might be fixed, but if the species was as self-destructive and corrupt as he fell into thinking at times, they would have never advanced.
New technologies brought about new threats, but they also allowed humans to spread out to the stars and to live like the gods they had worshipped in primitive times.
Had the Summer of Sorrow changed something fundamental about humanity?
War and struggle continued, but almost a century later, despite advances in technology and the spread of terrorism and insurgency, there ha
