One person, one moment

If you take one thing from this section, take this. The future world is one person, in one place, at one moment in time.

The rule that saves the Vision

One human being in a changed situation, rendered specifically enough that the listener can stand beside them and see what they see. Clara’s is one landowner, in her sixties, walking one field on one morning, and the field is loud. The moment a vision becomes a category, it gives the listener far less to simulate. The moment it becomes a person, the brain has something concrete to run. That is the whole rule, and it is the difference between a vision that inspires nobody and one that pulls a room toward it.