Augments, straw-men and techno-optimism

[Rynn]

That's a fair point Todd, though I feel that one could write a story without being totally one or the other. For example; a story on the impact of tech that has as a major part of the settings history a long period of notable failures. Alternatively the long story could happen but with the story/series skipping over time, kind of how the Mars Trilogy covers 200 years by frequently skipping a few years or decades between chapters.