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Yep. No telling what would have happened if humans never made the cyber world. Or what they really tapped into.
*Kicks a stone off the virtual path and watches it fall into the endless void, but then smiles*
With everything you’ve seen, I’m glad something about our world surprised you.
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I guess I don’t have a good metric for variation in universes. Like, I grew up in a rural country house, then we left as my dad reintegrated back into the IA but I just kind of stayed out of it. The average place I know is either super into the future compared to here, or not pretty well behind. And especially no cyber worlds in any of them quite like yours that exist in tandem with the physical one.