Widening and narrowing

Widening. The edit removes a condition that would have closed or badly narrowed the corridor. A disease that kills in early childhood. The edit takes the future person from a closing to the width the human architecture ordinarily supplies. The future operator inherits a corridor they can read from, register in, commit within. Maintenance.

Narrowing. The edit installs a feature the future override would otherwise have been free to develop along, selects one trajectory and closes the rest. Eye colour. Height. A body shaped to an external aesthetic. The editor has used override to contract a room the future person might have used differently, or not engaged at all. Contraction.

Clean at the extremes. Lethal disease is widening. Cosmetic selection is narrowing.

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