A Thought: How to Pre-emptively Stop Mass Murders
Since the most common-sense idea — “no guns” — won’t work in America, here?s a simple idea, and not even […]
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Ethics: The Right to Be Forgotten vs Censorship
Recently France?s privacy commission ruled that the European Union?s ?Right to Be Forgotten? law applies to Google worldwide, not just
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Creator Intent versus Reader Ownership
Who owns the meaning of a story? There?s an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut that may be apocryphal. It goes like
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A Review of The Wind-up Girl
Science Fiction set in non-Western cultures can be very interesting, and lately I?ve been lucky to find two that are
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The Hubris of the Echo Chamber
Like many, I was not only surprised, but shocked by the recent US elections. Michael Moore warned us back in
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Shouldn’t Laws Expire?
Here’s a question for you. Shouldn’t laws expire? Potato chips expire. Hell, even honey has expiration dates (honey doesn’t go
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Does automation liberate or enslave society?
A few things in the news lately have got me thinking about the first books I read by Isaac Asimov
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What Can Scalzi’s First Novel Teach New Authors?
Whether you love him or hate him, John Scalzi is incredibly influential and is probably the highest-paid science fiction writer
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Reflections on Creativity (Why I write the stories I write)
Even though I’m not as yet a published author, as an amateur writer I certainly have my opinions about writing
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What follows Capitalism?
Jeremy Rifkin, in his book Age of Access, posits the idea that the commercialization of cultural experiences is the final