I feel as if these two these two stories embraced the present but also looked toward the future because both of these were all about what the future holds and how much control we , as people , have over that . In the " Future Manifesto " they were all about humans as whole , as just a being and what we have done as a society . They want to abolish all that in the end and just have their writing to live by and feed off one anothers opinions . I felt that in " Burning Chrome " technology played a major part in the writing because technology was the key to everything for the characters .

Question: Why do you think the writer focused on technology so much ?
Answer: They thought it would be an easy topic to focus onThey wanted to assess technology and understand it as a motif in their literatureThey thought that most people would be interetested in technologyNone of the above choices .