I love thinking about these books as science fiction. I experience disappointment and frustration with some of the turns our technological evolution took, and my own inability to hack out my own path, so I took to writing science fiction in order to switch from an implementor's perspective to a user's perspective. My goal and process is to suspend the inner architect and programmer and skip to a conceivable end-result: alternative technological history type of thing. I find that picturing an end result of a hypothetical scientific effort relaxes me.