I’ve written a number of blogs that look at the issues around our (that is human) relationship with ever smarter machine intelligences and it continues to be a subject that fascinates me. I think it […]
Tag: predicting the future
Space exploration and Scifi – why we need them both.
In the Saturday Times magazine of the 18th January I read the column by Caitlin Moran, as I usually do. I like her irreverent somewhat sideways take on life. It makes you smile, but also […]
What will we be doing in the future – (3)
So over the last few blogs I have agonised over the affect of increasing mechanisation, robots and computers taking over much of what we currently call ‘work’. The bottom line as I see it is […]
The problems with writing ‘near future’ science fiction
Writing ‘near future’ sci-fi can be a bit of a mine field. Even what appear safe assumptions have their problems.