Death of the Author

by Nnedi Okorafor

We Humes had a profound love of storytelling. But no automation, AI or machine, could create stories. Not truly. We could pull from existing datasets, detect patterns, then copy and paste them in a new order, and sometimes that seemed like creation. But this couldn’t capture the narrative magic that humanity could wield.

Udide means “spider” in Igbo. Udide was known as the Great Artist.

I can’t be normal, so I’ll be something else.

Love who you love. Speak your truth. Be good and roll with life. You can’t have or control everything or everyone.”

“We are mortal beings. We die. But we live first.

She loves science fiction and reads voraciously. She was the one who explained to me why the genre is so important. How it’s about being different, seeing more, examining human nature, and imagining tomorrow.