The Present is an analog clock that completes one revolution per year. The most meaningful gift is not another object. It is a scale of time they didn't know was missing.
The problem was never your attention. It was the frame. A one-second present is a present you can never catch. A one-year present is a present you're already in.
Science fiction has reimagined everything. Gravity. Language. Memory. Government. The body. The speed of light. The nature of consciousness. The shape of cities. The definition of life. In five hundred years of speculative storytelling, almost no element of human experience...