Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
“Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.”
“We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.”