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October 26, 2012
SUB-HUMAN UPDATE!
Great news :) FYI Amazon has sent out a free update of Sub-Human for anyone who wants to get the most up to date version. If you downloaded the book in the first month, some typos that may be in your version won't be present in the new one. So if you want a sparkly new version to keep in your e-reader library, the update is free!
You can get this new version by going to the Manage Your Kindle page at http://amazon.com/MYKupdate. Find the book in your Kindle Library and click on the “update available” link next to the book’s title. Within 5 minutes, any of your devices that have the eBook currently downloaded and have an active wireless connection will be updated automatically.
October 15, 2012
iUniverse Interview.
http://www.authors.iuniversepublisher.com/authors-in-the-news/sci-fi-author-david-simpson/
September 9, 2012
Das Post-Human anyone?
September 1, 2012
SUB-HUMAN is now available on KINDLE!
Book description:
Before he was Old-timer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor, sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part the most important mission in American military history—a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world’s first strong Artificial Intelligence. The mission is only the beginning of Craig’s story, and for the story of humanity as well, as they accelerate towards a world that is post-human.
If you’re already a fan of the smash-hit Post-Human series, this prequel to Post-Human , Sub-Human, will answer the previously unanswered questions of how the post-human world came to be. And, if you’re new to the series, Sub-Human will serve as an engrossing introduction to a possible future that has enraptured tens of thousands of readers in 2012 alone!
Click here to buy Sub-Human
August 5, 2012
Sub-Human on kindle soon!
July 4, 2012
50K + Downloads in 2012!
Post-Human and Trans-Human reached #16 and #18 respectively in the entire Amazon.com free Kindle store, with over 21 000 ebook downloads in just 48 hours! This brings the total of downloads for the series to 54 000 in 2012!
June 24, 2012
IS THE MIND'S EYE 5 YEARS AWAY?
The recent article in gizmag, Neuroscientists could help people see with their "mind’s eye” that reported on the research of a team at the University of Texas, caught my attention for more reasons than just the use of the term mind’s eye. Obviously, the fact that the article uses the term that I first used in my novel, Post-Human, to describe an onboard mental computer, might simply be happenstance, but even if it is, it’s fascinating that the term is used at all, because the article doesn’t make reference to what are, in my opinion, the biggest implications of what this technology could be.
Indeed, the researchers are focusing on the possibility of creating a “visual prosthetic device that would effectively ‘trick’ the brains of visually impaired or blind people into seeing... and such a device, the authors say, is only about five years away.” Now, I can see why the researchers would be focused on this particular use for their technology. After all, being able to give blind people a tool that would allow them to see, albeit not with their eyes, is a fantastic and worthwhile goal.
What they don’t mention, but hopefully they’ve considered, is what such a technology could mean to people with sight. If it is possible to ‘trick’ the brain into hallucinating images, as I’ve theorized in my Post-Human series, then what we are talking about is the possibility of having an onboard mental display for a computer that would be incorporated—literally—into our bodies. Thus, the mind’s eye as seen in my novels could be just around the corner.
I conjured the idea of the mind’s eye while trying to take the smartphone phenomenon (that was just beginning in early 2005 when I started writing Post-Human) to the most logical conclusion that I could. Smartphones allow us to be “plugged in” to the internet permanently, and as we watch their evolution, they are becoming more and more a part of us. Intelligent systems like SIRI are allowing us to access them in a way that is, for the most part, hands free, while Google’s Project Glass is about to take that to the next level. Project Glass is, essentially, the mind’s eye’s first real iteration. Once we are wearing our computers over our eyes, where do we go from there?
That’s right. Right inside our brains, baby.
Professor Michael Beauchamp and his team are onto something really big—something so big that it should take their breath away when they consider the ramifications. Whether they realize how big it really is, remains to be seen, but I hope they do. What they’re working on could end up being an even more significant change to humanity than the internet itself. It could be the most substantial step yet towards posthumanity—and, as Professor Beauchamp says himself, “We are probably about 5 years from such a technology, even though there are a number of obstacles.” Wow.
So will we be walking around with mind’s eyes in 5 years? No, but will the technology exist to project discernible images onto our “mind’s eyes?” It looks like it, and that is something of which we should all be taking note.
June 10, 2012
Is the Mind's Eye 5 years away?
The recent article in gizmag, Neuroscientists could help people see with their "mind’s eye” that reported on the research of a team at the University of Texas, caught my attention for more reasons than just the use of the term mind’s eye. Obviously, the fact that the article uses the term that I first used in my novel, Post-Human, to describe an onboard mental computer, might simply be happenstance, but even if it is, it’s fascinating that the term is used at all, because the article doesn’t make reference to what are, in my opinion, the biggest implications of what this technology could be.
Indeed, the researchers are focusing on the possibility of creating a “visual prosthetic device that would effectively ‘trick’ the brains of visually impaired or blind people into seeing... and such a device, the authors say, is only about five years away.” Now, I can see why the researchers would be focused on this particular use for their technology. After all, being able to give blind people a tool that would allow them to see, albeit not with their eyes, is a fantastic and worthwhile goal.
What they don’t mention, but hopefully they’ve considered, is what such a technology could mean to people with sight. If it is possible to ‘trick’ the brain into hallucinating images, as I’ve theorized in my Post-Human series, then what we are talking about is the possibility of having an onboard mental display for a computer that would be incorporated—literally—into our bodies. Thus, the mind’s eye as seen in my novels could be just around the corner.
I conjured the idea of the mind’s eye while trying to take the smartphone phenomenon (that was just beginning in early 2005 when I started writing Post-Human) to the most logical conclusion that I could. Smartphones allow us to be “plugged in” to the internet permanently, and as we watch their evolution, they are becoming more and more a part of us. Intelligent systems like SIRI are allowing us to access them in a way that is, for the most part, hands free, while Google’s Project Glass is about to take that to the next level. Project Glass is, essentially, the mind’s eye’s first real iteration. Once we are wearing our computers over our eyes, where do we go from there?
That’s right. Right inside our brains, baby.
Professor Michael Beauchamp and his team are onto something really big—something so big that it should take their breath away when they consider the ramifications. Whether they realize how big it really is, remains to be seen, but I hope they do. What they’re working on could end up being an even more significant change to humanity than the internet itself. It could be the most substantial step yet towards posthumanity—and, as Professor Beauchamp says himself, “We are probably about 5 years from such a technology, even though there are a number of obstacles.” Wow.
So will we be walking around with mind’s eyes in 5 years? No, but will the technology exist to project discernible images onto our “mind’s eyes?” It looks like it, and that is something of which we should all be taking note.
Mind's Eye in 5 years?
The recent article in gizmag, Neuroscientists could help people see with their "mind’s eye” that reported on the research of a team at the University of Texas, caught my attention for more reasons than just the use of the term mind’s eye. Obviously, the fact that the article uses the term that I first used in my novel, Post-Human, to describe an onboard mental computer, might simply be happenstance, but even if it is, it’s fascinating that the term is used at all, because the article doesn’t make reference to what are, in my opinion, the biggest implications of what this technology could be.
Indeed, the researchers are focusing on the possibility of creating a “visual prosthetic device that would effectively ‘trick’ the brains of visually impaired or blind people into seeing... and such a device, the authors say, is only about five years away.” Now, I can see why the researchers would be focused on this particular use for their technology. After all, being able to give blind people a tool that would allow them to see, albeit not with their eyes, is a fantastic and worthwhile goal.
What they don’t mention, but hopefully they’ve considered, is what such a technology could mean to people with sight. If it is possible to ‘trick’ the brain into hallucinating images, as I’ve theorized in my Post-Human series, then what we are talking about is the possibility of having an onboard mental display for a computer that would be incorporated—literally—into our bodies. Thus, the mind’s eye as seen in my novels could be just around the corner.
I conjured the idea of the mind’s eye while trying to take the smartphone phenomenon (that was just beginning in early 2005 when I started writing Post-Human) to the most logical conclusion that I could. Smartphones allow us to be “plugged in” to the internet permanently, and as we watch their evolution, they are becoming more and more a part of us. Intelligent systems like SIRI are allowing us to access them in a way that is, for the most part, hands free, while Google’s Project Glass is about to take that to the next level. Project Glass is, essentially, the mind’s eye’s first real iteration. Once we are wearing our computers over our eyes, where do we go from there?
That’s right. Right inside our brains, baby.
Professor Michael Beauchamp and his team are onto something really big—something so big that it should take their breath away when they consider the ramifications. Whether they realize how big it really is, remains to be seen, but I hope they do. What they’re working on could end up being an even more significant change to humanity than the internet itself. It could be the most substantial step yet towards posthumanity—and, as Professor Beauchamp says himself, “We are probably about 5 years from such a technology, even though there are a number of obstacles.” Wow.
So will we be walking around with mind’s eyes in 5 years? No, but will the technology exist to project discernible images onto our “mind’s eyes?” It looks like it, and that is something of which we should all be taking note.
March 30, 2012
Thank you. Kareen Kuether! (Reader appreciation day 4)
Thank you so much for your kind support, Kareen. :) I'd be nowhere without the support of my readers.
Read Kareen's Review for Post-Human Here: Click Here
