There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics apart from anything else political change can come very unexpectedly sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped ' I focus on neural implants.