The stage of the novel is mainly in the Swiss European Nuclear Research Organization. The two protagonists are scientists of the institution. One saw the disintegration of his marriage in the flash, and the other saw nothing, but was told that he was going to be murdered with the help of the mosaic system.
The former found his sweetheart and was preparing to get married, and flashed him to decide whether to start this doomed marriage. The latter has spent all energy to overcome his fate of being murdered.
The fiction suggests that the flash-mob future is only a possibility, and the future does not necessarily happen.
The reason for the flash in the novel is because of the physical experiment of the two protagonists and the coincidence of a certain particle passing through the earth. Then many years later, people calculated the second flash. The protagonist saw the future trend of infinite time after the earth, just like the few minutes in the 2001 Space Odyssey, setting a high point for the novel (the novel obtained the nebula of that year) prize).
The reason for the flash-mob of the TV series is attributed to the conspiracy manipulated by some people. The old routines of the American TV series have several layers below the idea.
The same is true for the two protagonists, one pursues family integrity, the other tries to avoid his own murder.
It reminds that the future of flash will not necessarily happen, and there are also people who have flash memory but died unexpectedly.
In short, TV extracts important flash concepts and the protagonist’s line of struggle from the novel. The reason for the pop-up is a conspiracy made up by the screenwriter. I think it's very possible that the screenwriter will forget his foreshadowing, so I personally don't think it should be too serious. It just depends on how they continue to write. According to the novel, I guess the protagonist one family dissolves harmoniously, and the protagonist two succeeds in preventing murder.
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