There's a wee bit of what Guy says in The Quarry about being well rid of some of the more ignoble aspects of the present day".
That is, they fasten onto those aspects of the present that most arouse their curiosity -- in Stephenson's case, computers and modern finance -- and treat them as historical inevitabilities.
The adult dystopia extrapolates from aspects of the present to show readers how terrible things will become if our deplorable behavior continues unchecked.
Writer tells, at some length, about the good and bad aspects of the present Polish economy and plans for privatization of industry which must come about.
Thus, the positive aspects of the eschatological future are circumscribed by the negative aspects of the present.
To lay responsibility for the problems (or, for that matter, the positive aspects) of the present is not only unfair but also lazy.
A spokesman for the Ecuadorean embassy said: "Ecuador presently finds itself in a unique situation and it is important that those responsible making the final decision on Mr Assange's application are fully briefed on all aspects of the present situation".
It was from these early beginnings that Wang eventually became one of China's most famous dissidents - and shed rare light on one of the darkest aspects of the present regime: its systematic misuse of mental hospitals for political prisoners.
Abstract: According to aspects of the present invention, a cartridge assembly for transporting fluid into or out of one or more fluidic devices includes a first layer and a second layer.
