…when you realize that the internet is a factory for creating cults, and that social media and smart devices are force multipliers for this effect. Before the internet, your “community” was a geographically bound group of people, who were diverse enough (that’s “diverse” with a lower-case d) to give you an interesting variety of perspectives… Continue reading Our world makes a lot more sense…
Tag: technology
Why I’m not worried about AI replacing writers
So machine learning artificial intelligence has really been blowing up this past month, probably because of ChatGPT and all of the fascinating things that people are doing with it. I’ve been getting into it myself, using it to help write or improve my book descriptions, and also experimenting with it for writing stories. At this… Continue reading Why I’m not worried about AI replacing writers
So I’ve been playing around with AI art…
Note: this post originally appeared in my newsletter, but I was so excited about it that I decided to post it here too. Enjoy! So my wife is getting a PhD in computer science, which means that she’s on the cutting edge of research into things like language learning and topic models and other techy… Continue reading So I’ve been playing around with AI art…
Operation SB #2: The Open Source Time Machine
Title: The Open Source Time Machine Genre: Science Fiction Word Count: 3,247 Time: About 10 days I felt really good after finishing this short story. The last line in particular surprised me, which is always a good sign. I think this story is going to go places. The idea for this one actually came about… Continue reading Operation SB #2: The Open Source Time Machine
Trope Tuesday: After the End
It’s the end of the world as we know it … so why do we feel fine? On the apocalyptic scale of world destruction, when the thing that wipes out civilization doesn’t quite kill everyone, we’re left with an After the End type setting. Depending on where the writers fall on the sliding scale of… Continue reading Trope Tuesday: After the End
Plans for Edenfall
I’m trying something a little different with Edenfall: I’m writing the first draft entirely in longhand. I first got the idea a couple of years ago, when I was camping in Moab. The beautiful landscape of southern Utah made me realize that I wanted to write Edenfall while experiencing that sort of connection with nature, and pen and paper seemed to… Continue reading Plans for Edenfall
Are ebooks there yet? My response to Wired
I just read an interesting article on Wired putting forth five reasons why ebooks aren’t yet better than print books. I find it mildly interesting that Publisher’s Weekly linked the article on Twitter; the more things change, the more that people in traditional publishing seem to plug their ears and pretend like it isn’t happening. … Continue reading Are ebooks there yet? My response to Wired
The technological singularity: a thing of the past?
One of the latest trends in science fiction is the concept of the technological singularity — the point in history at which technological advances occur so rapidly that we can no longer learn the new stuff fast enough to keep up with it. I hear a lot of people talk about this at cons, and… Continue reading The technological singularity: a thing of the past?