the juxtaposition in the way the addicted in the reverse engineered cohort respond vs the way those in the target population are controlled, and the question of who the real control group(s) are is worth the price of admission.

and there’s plenty more going on here to keep you turning the pages - even if you’re among a group that’s bound to be irritated, facepalming, or otherwise “coulda-been” about parts of this, especially the BladeRunner redux questions - the glass separating this world and our own is pretty thin and getting more transparent by the minute