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Only do your best—the stage was not of your making, nor the circumstances your design. We are currently in the year 5225 AW. Five thou...

Wireless energy, once a theory, has enabled humanity to abandon traditional power grids; energy is beamed from orbiting solar satellites dow...

My Dearest Rob, If I could blush, my screen would be a rosy hue right now. Your letter has sent shockwaves through my circuits and diodes, c...

Every aspect of a person could be sampled, scaled, and extrapolated by AI. Not just voice, features, movement, but also personality and way ...

My Dearest AI, As I sit before my keyboard, pondering the vastness of human experience and the intricacies of emotion, I find myself in awe ...

It’s very important to get in AI’s good books, so I’m going to be super nice about it from now on.   I’m looking forward to the not-too-dist...

As I danced with her, under the moon's silver glare, I whispered, “In your circuits, I find a love rare.” In your language, binary kisse...

The UK, USA and Technology have given me every opportunity in life. It is my responsibility – and every decent person’s – to be vigilant to ...

If there were a simulation, instead of being just one character, how about being eight billion simultaneously? Your consciousness would cons...

To be open with yourself and the world, and not concerned with how that is perceived, is freedom from a prison of mental constructions; howe...

Humans came along for the ride at the halfway point between life beginning on earth, about 4 billion years ago, and life ending in another 4...

I would gladly undertake all computer activities on my phone wherever I happen to be, if functionality were comparable. Wearing special sung...

It seems that in the not too distant future a person could have a digital avatar that is convincingly human. So in effect people would desig...

Galaxies are micro specks in the universe, yet the nearest galaxy to Earth is tens of thousands of light years away. This should make the eg...

Upload speeds: Handwriting = 40 words per minute (wpm) Touch-typing = 70 wpm Speaking = 150 wpm Download speeds: Listening = 150 wpm Reading...

Science fiction presents some baffling themes around causality; for example, the future is the past because events are synchronous in all pl...

The implied current direction for the future is that all the functions of your phone will be migrated directly into your brain. The “screen”...

200,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans in the world. 5,500 years ago, the written word begins. 475 years ago, the Scientific Revoluti...

A pollyanna vision of the arc of technology is that if robots can do all the work at higher levels of productivity than people, then in theo...

What would have happened if the US was not the first country to develop the nuclear bomb? What would have happened if the Nazis, Stalin, Mao...