I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.