I sometimes marvel at the subjects some authors choose to explore.   Take, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschbaum.  (“Word Perfect,” by Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, June 2016, pgs. 71-73.)   How large, I wonder, is the audience that

I opened an email the other day from my publisher.  Their note said they’d submitted my novel, Heart Land, for some book award.  If they’d had asked me, I’d have told them not to bother.  I don’t have much faith in awards.  Wherever people gather, politics is likely to fol

I want to pose a question: How can we develop Artificial Intelligence when our own intelligence is questionable; when we can’t agree on standards of behavior or ethical goals; when we  know little about how our brains work; can’t define intelligence and have no idea what consciou

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne imagined deep water submarines.  In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov dreamed of machines with personalities.  J. K. Rowling envisioned an invisibility cloak in Harry Potter.  Why take note of this?  Because, so often, fiction imagines po