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Ron Magnusholm is a futurist and AI researcher. His interests include Natural Language Processing, artificial emotions, and empathy emulation in software.

He is married with two children and has degrees in medicine and environmental management. In his youth, he spent some time in the military where he specialized in wilderness survival.

He believes that by mid-21 century, robots and AI would far exceed human capacity, leading to radical and unprecedented changes.

Military conflict, medical advances, human enhancement, and artificial intelligence are recurrent themes in his writing.

Magnusholm wrote House of Cain over several years in the late nineties while studying at a London university. It is a dark war novel, inspired by stories heard aroun ...more

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