“Anti-Social” came from thinking about how we are losing personal contact as the internet and social media evolve. We’re also creating ridiculous quantities of data. What if in the future all data is transitory – statisticians determined that there will always a copy of anything somewhere (a PC, a server, a phone), so permanent storage … Continue reading
Happy belated Independence Day! Not like the movie – I know people cheered in the theater when the aliens blew up the White House (occupied by the Clintons at the time), but no one really meant it – or threatened to do it themselves. Our current invaders also seem alien to me. Sure – they … Continue reading
Quarantine. I wonder how many writers nowadays find their stories set in prison, or during some great cataclysm that makes people hole up in their basements? Do you? (If you’re just consuming content instead, try to stay away from networks that have decided now is the time to show plague marathons, or shows like A … Continue reading
I write speculative fiction – it’s a term that encompasses Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (among other things.) Th speculative element is something that is known to not be real (At the time of writing, at least – we don’t go back and remove the SPECULATIVE label on Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea … Continue reading
I was having a conversation with someone from one of the younger generations (that would be just about anyone, wouldn’t it) and we were talking about friends, and what that means these days. There are people you know in the REAL world – people you’ve actually seen in public. Maybe you work with them, or … Continue reading
We do our best to understand the world around us. Assuming our understanding is true, our thoughts are happening inside our skulls, pretty much isolated from everything else. We rely on information coming to us from outside… of whatever it is we think we are on the inside. We have to trust that information, but … Continue reading
I get so tired of the symbolism over substance society we seem to live in nowadays. People climb on board of causes with armbands, hashtags, pat phrases and expressions designed to show that they’re on the proper – or politically correct – side of an issue. Virtue signaling – it seems more a tribal signal, … Continue reading
We just celebrated Easter Sunday – a pivotal day for Christians. The more I think about it, it’s amazing how Christianity spread across the world. Consider the communication methods of the time – no printing presses, radio, television, major media, or internet to disseminate the information, and yet it spread across the world. There are … Continue reading
How do you know if you’re crazy? And if you know, then are you? Usually, we determine whether someone is crazy by comparison – are they seeing the world the same as the rest of us? Is their concept of REALITY a match with what we KNOW to be true? That’s how echo chambers and … Continue reading
“Anti-Social” came from thinking about how we are losing personal contact as the internet and social media evolve. We’re also creating ridiculous quantities of data. What if in the future all data is transitory – statisticians determined that there will always a copy of anything somewhere (a PC, a server, a phone), so permanent storage … Continue reading
