She wasn't, as it turns out, playing a drone-piloting simulation game: she was piloting a real drone in this divergent future.
It is a matter of reflexive clarification of the conditions under which people can act and decide today, taking into account divergent future perspectives.
This brought into sharp relief Tuesday's electoral choices and the vastly divergent future paths they offered.
Lionel Shriver, meanwhile, was no neophyte when We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange prize, but all eyes will be on her encore, The Post Birthday World (HarperCollins, May), a parallel-universe narrative of a woman whose divergent futures hinge on just one kiss.
And then there's the disconcerting use of boldface type to aid skimmers: "This is a story with *no clear outcome*, as illustrated by a series of vignettes we use to map out divergent futures".
Do they chart two divergent futures for synthetic biology?
They were like two versions of the same person who were debating each other's shared past and divergent futures.
Whilst portrayed as divergent futures, both visions aimed to 'design out' the role of occupants, achieving emissions reductions through changes to the built environment and maintaining current lifestyles; a position that was reinforced by an imagined public that was unable or unwilling to accept the need for lifestyle change.
He had imagined a divergent view of the future, and he became a tireless evangelist on its behalf.
Easing geopolitical tensions amid a robust start to earnings season, has put crude oil futures (/CL, candlestick chart) on a divergent path than the S&P 500 Index (purple line).
If you are a Divergent fan: I suggest reading it.
