I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking...
Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public...
And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is and then anticipate the next upturn.
