There’s a lot in the media at the moment concerning Artificial Intelligence, some hailing it as the next industrial revolution, others as Armageddon waiting to happen. I know science fiction over the years has been […]
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The fantasy fiction chicken and egg question?
In the UK there have been an interesting series of programs (on the BBC) by Andrew Marr looking in-depth at why we love reading fiction. The first program concerned the genre of detective stories and the […]
How much science is in science fiction?
Last time I talked about why I write science fiction and I guess, bottom line, it just feels the most natural thing for me to do. However, as soon as you start writing science fiction […]
Why I write science fiction
In my last blog I questioned if blogging was wasting my time. I concluded it was, but it wasn’t all the time if that makes sense. I don’t want to stop blogging, I enjoy it. […]
Robots – will they make us lazy?
I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’ Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, […]