Posing realistic futures can be a difficult thing, but this
reading gives a strange reality in which the world has both progressed and
fallen behind. Speaking from a point of view in which the sea provides
habitation to some humans and there is little knowledge portrayed of
interaction of those left on land (if there are any). This idea of “Traders” being almost experiments or becoming
sub-human for the good of the economy and whatever else, leads you to believe of
a rise in dysfunctional human rights and half baked pseudo science that can be
created in stories of government conspiracy. Some of the wording reminds me of
the film Minority Report where people of certain skill are used and mistreated for
the greater good.
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The social experiment that is proposed indicates the lack of
national boundaries where the world is united as one and traditional currency
is of no value. I would have liked to read more on the way in which Revell’s future
scenario panned out amongst those on land and how societies were affected by a nomadic
trading system that controlled the world.
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