The world is huge and complex. To be convinced of this, you need to turn off the usual highway onto an inconspicuous road and drive along it, at every turn discovering more and more new worlds, both similar and dissimilar to ours... Worlds where they build space elevators and arrange an exemplary life on Mars, worlds where dinosaurs are not extinct and coexist with humanity, worlds where machines are trying to replay the Old Testament in their own way. But the most amazing thing is that this is really our world, our planet, our century...