Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

-Arthur C. Clarke

An excerpt from the 'Business Bookshelf' section of the Los Angeles
Times...

'Futurists Sees Machines, Humans Merging in 2045 (Headlines)

Ray Kurzwell, an inventor and futurist, has stumbled on a discovery of
earth-shattering importance. It is the arrival of "singularity," and
according to him it will happen in 2045... Kurzweil maintains that the
first half of the 21st century will be characterized by three
overlapping revolutions: human genetics, robotics or artificial
intelligence, and nanotechnology.'

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The 21st century or at least the first half of it will be the setting
and timeline in which the stories from the Mavin Trilogy will take place
;highlighting technological themes from the areas of artificial
intelligence(AI), nanotechnology and maybe genetics as a sub-supporting
theme.