Love in a Remotely-Controlled Climate

The problem with the future is that it’s never quite as interesting or as different as we imagine (or, in some cases, hope) it might be. Human beings still feel old-fashioned emotions like jealousy, lust and disappointment. No matter how much we might like to pretend otherwise, we will still inhabit ageing and often painful fleshy bodies that feel miserable without touch and which long for doughnuts, even when too many doughnuts have already been consumed.