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What got me was that they were all "oh, hey, I wonder if this is going to be the future in 20 years time" and everyone was stressing about what they saw.
OF COURSE IT WASN'T. They weren't all staring at a piece of paper with important information about the occurrences of the past 20 years written on it, were they? Like "buy stock in ebook readers, because they're sure to take off"? (Or not, y'know.)
It was a POSSIBLE future, and it grated me no end that they were harping on how it was a definite future until Theo's brother suicided, thereby proving it wasn't. Billions of people going about their ordinary lives clearly wasn't enough!
The end bit with Lloyd's spanning of the ages was very strange. Part 3 overall was something of a let-down; possibly this would have been a lot stronger work as a novella, ending about where they found out for certain that it was only a probable future -- or even when they discovered it wasn't only the Hadron Collider, but the particle flare.
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