How much of your personal experiences if at all influenced the storyline and characters? I was hoping to convey that technology in itself cannot make us happy, because, at its core, happiness isn’t about life becoming “easy.” Instead, happiness comes from ourselves, and our relationships with each other.ģ. But even in that future world, the characters still want the same things that people want today. I tried to depict a future world of incredible convenience, with computerized contact lenses and incredible high-speed travel-a world where, as Watt puts it, everything is “easier and faster and safer”.
As we’ve all become attached to our iPhones (I keep seeing people walk along the streets without looking up from their screens, furiously texting!) our face-to-face interactions have suffered.
The Thousandth Floor series focuses a lot on technology, and how it changes the way that people interact with one another. Do you see trends, whether positive or negative in our society that this trilogy focuses on?
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