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The Intelligence of Things
We are quite familiar with artificial intelligence, thanks to the brilliant marketing moves made by OpenAI not long ago. And we have a decent…
Apr 11
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March 2024
RIP Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge passed away this week after a long life, successful careers in both education and writing, and a battle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was…
Mar 22
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February 2024
When Tech Goes Wrong and the Science Fiction that Glorifies it
This last week we saw two major stories of technology going horribly wrong. First, Google’s new Gemini text-to-art AI program displayed serious racial…
Feb 27
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OpenAI's Sora Changes Everything
Last time we took a look at components that improve current iterations of the holodeck idea from Star Trek, namely the Holo-Tile omnidirectional…
Feb 20
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New Hardware for the Holodeck
With the slow rollout and adoption of VR goggles (probably because of their high prices), gradually more people are tuning into the old science fiction…
Feb 6
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January 2024
Live Long and Prosper
How One Writer can Affect Culture Through a Popular TV Show
Jan 16
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Current version of the holodeck
I received a pleasant note from a reader the other day complimenting the artwork for my column on Ray Bradbury’s Letters. She wanted to know if it would…
Jan 8
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Ray Bradbury's Letters
When my favorite author Robert Heinlein died, I was in college snapping up hardcover first releases, my biggest entertainment expense in those days. His…
Jan 4
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December 2023
The Promise of Nuclear Fusion
In the last book of the Bible, the apostle John gives a hint of an eternal state in the New Creation with limitless energy: And there shall be no night…
Dec 23, 2023
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Sources of Info for the Science Fiction Writer
On the heels of last week’s post about tools for staying abreast of tech and science pubs, the natural question it leads to is, What are some good tech…
Dec 19, 2023
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Writer’s Tools for Staying Abreast of Tech and Science Pubs
Science fiction involves taking advances in science and technology and using them within a fictional setting. There’s a lot of leeway in there. Hard…
Dec 13, 2023
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Distraction-free Writing in the Age of the Internet
Many moons ago I worked with some children classified as illiterate. Their reading and writing skills remained almost non-existent. One of the things I…
Dec 2, 2023
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