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August 13, 2014
Intelligent machines, what will they do with us?
I’ve written a number of blogs on robots, androids and intelligent computers and where it might be heading. We seem to see creating artificial intelligence as an inevitable goal. I just wonder what we will do with it once we have it, or rather what it might do with us? There is of course the … Continue Reading →
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August 6, 2014
Things that I think should be invented in the future
Continuing with my holiday blogs and last week’s ‘Things I would ban in the future’, I thought this time I would have a look at some things I think might improve my life: 1) Self-drive car to get you back from the pub. OK this implies I drink a lot, I don’t. But sometimes I go … Continue Reading →
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Things that think should be invented in the future
Continuing with my holiday blogs and last week’s ‘Things I would ban in the future’, I thought this time I would have a look at some things I think might improve my life: 1) Self-drive car to get you back from the pub. OK this implies I drink a lot, I don’t. But sometimes I go … Continue Reading →
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July 30, 2014
Some things I would ban in the future
I’m off on holiday for a few weeks so while I’m away a couple of more frivolous blogs. Although they may get you thinking. As a writer of sci-fi I thought they should be based (loosely) on the future. So first I have been thinking of some of those things I would, given my choice, … Continue Reading →
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July 23, 2014
Do we need to be a bit more Victorian?
I know life wasn’t great for everyone in the Victorian age. There was gross poverty, exploitation of children and many other things that we’ve striven hard to put right over the last hundred years or so. But what they did have, or at least some of them did, was the ultimate ‘can do’ attitude. In … Continue Reading →
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July 16, 2014
Where to go for inspiration – a few ideas
I find the idea of ‘writers block’ peculiar, it’s not something I’ve suffered from. OK, sometimes I have to stop and think about where my story is going and does it make sense etc., but I’m never stuck for something to write. Also if my latest project is not flowing I might switch to a short … Continue Reading →
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July 9, 2014
The Trouble with Aliens
In a critique of my first book ‘Ancestral Dreams’ I was told my aliens were not alien enough. The premise is that these creatures visited earth many thousands of years ago and passed into legend. At first I thought, they’re my aliens, I’ll have them as I want. But then I also understood what he … Continue Reading →
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July 2, 2014
Future homes – what will we really need?
This blog was inspired by the fact that I’ve just invested in a new pc. The old one was, well getting old, slowing down. I know how it feels. However unlike myself I could transfer my in-silica life into a new and, hopefully, superior body. They say, getting married, buying a house, moving job etc. … Continue Reading →
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June 25, 2014
Why you should join a writing group
I was advised to join a writing group early on in my writing career and I ignored it for a couple of years. I thought about it, and even looked a few up a few local ones on line. I can admit it now, I think I was a little intimidated – what if I wasn’t … Continue Reading →
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June 18, 2014
The human race needs to leave earth – part 2.
I was stirred to write my first blog on this subject by the fact that if we continue to cut down the Amazon rain forest at the current rate there will be none left in two hundred years. A situation fed by poverty and our consumption minded society in the ‘west’. I speculate that if … Continue Reading →
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