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Had it been implemented, this template would have addressed the financial, infrastructural and regulatory challenges which would dog the financial derivatives market in the early 21st century, eventually bringing to the brink of an abyss the rolling countryside of {{aies}} a verdant land in whose verdant folded hills, nooks and crannies peaceable, hobbity little [[First Men|swapsfolk]] had for generations made their comfortable nests. | Had it been implemented, this template would have addressed the financial, infrastructural and regulatory challenges which would dog the financial derivatives market in the early 21st century, eventually bringing to the brink of an abyss the rolling countryside of {{aies}} a verdant land in whose verdant folded hills, nooks and crannies peaceable, hobbity little [[First Men|swapsfolk]] had for generations made their comfortable nests. | ||
The story’s deep unpopularity with critics and the wider public had something to do with a lack of major human characters. For this, Barkley was unrepentant. Asked why there was no hero or heroine, he replied, “because that would be colossal a failure of historiography. {{Br|The Atlantis Variation}} is set in a world, not unlike our own, in which humans are already irrelevant and are becoming downright annoying.” What character arc there was took the shape of an awakening moral compass in the automated Bulgarian [[playbook]] as it nears the [[Singularity]]. Necessary plot exposition came about in a turgid and thoroughly implausible dialogue between two minor characters, [[credit officer]]s [[Dan Grade]] and [[May Cole]] inexplicably portrayed as weaklings tethered to a giant human neural network, systematically optimising their background neural processing capacity. | |||
While they romped wealthily about their sun-drenched meadows, the ’08 would silently, effectively consolidate all documentation across a wide range of products and asset classes ([[including but not limited to]] [[repo]], [[stock lending]], [[prime brokerage]], [[exchange traded derivatives]], [[commodities]] and [[emissions]]), finally moving the financial world into a stable [[Utopia|utopian state]] in which all risks are known, all eventualities experienced and contingencies accounted for. ''[[Risk]]'' would finally be banished for ever. | While they romped wealthily about their sun-drenched meadows, the ’08 would silently, effectively consolidate all documentation across a wide range of products and asset classes ([[including but not limited to]] [[repo]], [[stock lending]], [[prime brokerage]], [[exchange traded derivatives]], [[commodities]] and [[emissions]]), finally moving the financial world into a stable [[Utopia|utopian state]] in which all risks are known, all eventualities experienced and contingencies accounted for. ''[[Risk]]'' would finally be banished for ever. | ||