This humanizes the scientists behind a world-changing technology, like an biography of the Manhattan Project scientists or something. It feels realistic bc of this, and so the cautionary tale feels more real. I knocked off a star just because the world Silberstein imagines is, well, unimaginative. As a result of the implant rechnology, the whole world undergoes a transformation... into the utopian ideal of an American neoliberal who believes in critical race theory only to the extent that it empowers all marginalized people with the means to participate in capitalist markets. In other words, even this revolutionary technology is not powerful enough to break through capitalist realism.