Kenny Malone

And maybe more importantly, how do we have money to buy the products that we didn't help make?

One of the things that occurred to me in reading this book is, can people get this, by the way?

Surely someone will publish your book, Jack.

It's on my list.

It plagues me.

Having gone through a series of reporting on books and how they get made, I suspect you'd be an attractive candidate to a publisher.

One of the things that did occur to me in reading your book is that science fiction writers, by definition, are imagining a future.

They're predicting a future.

But you may be genuinely the only one that I can think of who is simultaneously shaping the future.

And we are all living in the world that your technology is creating.

And so I do genuinely wonder if that changes how I should read this book.

Like, should I think of your writing

as a blueprint, as instructions, as a warning, as advice on how to live in Jack Clark's future.

Are you, and so you are warning us and you're warning us, you're not warning us.

I guess that's why you said yes.

Is everyone excited?

That's about the response I expected, to be honest.

For me, a lot of trepidation, personally.

That may just be me.

I don't know.