Category: Fiction
New short story: “Upon the Place Beneath”
And it turned out that we built software patient enough to hallucinate medicines that worked and patient enough to teach…
New short story: “How to hunt monsters”
You have to be subtle when letting people know about the zombie-infested valley. You don’t want mass panic, armies, chaos….
New short story: “Iterative Prototyping”
Seven secret closed bunkers were rehearsing the end of the world. It was delicate work to build an stable synthetic…
New short story: “Forensic Analysis”
Kate’s anger always knew it first. The rest of us would follow: we were looking at the data with as…
New short story: “Educational Software”
The Black Box upside down (meaning exposure, vulnerability, lack of power; that which is optimized for somebody else’s benefit) Her…
New short story: “The Plot”
The setting was beautiful enough to slightly warm even the heart of a well-paid script hack. “I’m not much for…
New short story: “Night and Rain were the Local Optimum”
Her online life, which means her life, was a Noir tragedy: so it had been decreed by the impersonal Fates…
New short story: “A Sense of Identity”
When the doors opened you were so surprised you almost didn’t take off the neural reading crown. The machine couldn’t…
New short story: “Criminogenic Tech”
She entered her bedroom to find a man she couldn’t recognize drinking coffee on her bed with the million-yard stare…
Innovation is what you build when everybody else is nervous
Here’s a couple of interesting facts: Venture investment sentiment on systemic innovation is flighty. The long-term competitive value of systemic…