Articles

You’ve probably seen them on Facebook, X, BlueSky, or your favorite social network. The posts usually start with something like this: I will never read a book where the author used AI in any form or fashion!!! I don’t often wade into these debates, but if I did, I’d point out that many—perhaps most—authors already […]

View by category

robot-writing-novel

You’ve probably seen them on Facebook, X, BlueSky, or your favorite social network. The posts usually start with something like this: I will never read a book where the author

Ourmedia.org helped usher in an age of grassroots media … and all that followed Where were you 20 years ago? For some of us techies, we were just at the

3 social networks

Is it time to ditch X for Bluesky? It’s a question I’ve been asking a lot over the past year … and maybe you have, too. I’m usually a fairly

The-Golden-Relic

My new technothriller “The Golden Relic” marks the beginning of a new series of AI action thrillers I’ll be writing over the next couple of years. Early reviewers are giving

text-message-forwarding

Years ago, in the primordial days of the Web when I started blogging in May 2001, a lot of us used blogs to share tips on how to solve problems,

Lensa AI Collage

While artificial intelligence has crept into nearly every facet of modern life, it has largely been an afterthought for most of us, even as we know it’s playing a big

BingeBooks sheds a light on book discovery.
A new platform for book discovery called BingeBooks (tagline: “Find your next great read”) just launched fills a gap in the book marketplace.
media

Post by Jack Warner TechWarn While anyone who conducts any kind of digital activity is at risk of a security breach or cyber attack, journalists are especially vulnerable to surveillance

r2d2 and c3po
We’ve completed a study of the top artificial intelligences in film and came away with a new appreciation of how screenwrites are depicting this emerging technology. Here's our ranking of
audiobooks

If you’re an indie author, you may be deliberating whether to take the plunge into publishing an audiobook. The reasons to forge ahead are many. Audiobooks are the fastest growing

audio-book-catch-and-kill

Don’t you just love audiobooks? There’s nothing like them to take the tedium out of commuting, long walks or exercising at the gym. So I’m jazzed to tell you about

watson-health

We’ve arrived at another moment of cultural assimilation — the point at which a new concept or technology becomes absorbed into the social fabric as something that’s new and interesting

Participants don virtual reality headsets at an event put on by NYU’s Future Reality Lab.

New VR tech unveiled at Tribeca Immersive underscores social nature of storytelling One of the downsides of virtual reality is how isolating it can be. To be sure, there are

4 books

For decades, fiction authors have built worlds for their books that, over time, become reality. H.G. Wells imagined inspired inventions from the laser to email. Jules Verne envisioned modern submarines,

purple-dino

Plus other takeaways from an AR meetup During the winter I’ve been head down working on book two of the high-tech thriller trilogy I’m writing (stay tuned for an announcement

terminator
Motion pictures have blazed a trail in stoking ideas and igniting debate about AI — and the notion of what it means to be alive. Here's an infographic and essay
CEO Sam Liang, left, and co-founder/VP Engineering Yun Fu in the AISense offices. (
The Otter Voice Notes consumer app — free in the Apple App Store and on Google Play — lets you record and transcribe up to 600 minutes of audio every
novel writing books

Over the years I’ve written both nonfiction books and novels. Now that I’m firmly encamped on the fiction side — and working on Book 2 of my high-tech thriller series

charlie fink
Here's a recap of my participation in a virtual reality speaker series put on by High Fidelity, including a discussion of VR, AR and predictions for the future.
Biohack scene

Plus, tips on how to use ACX and Whispersync After I shared the manuscript of my high-tech conspiracy thriller Biohack with my Book Launch Team, the first question some readers

baby

It’s funny how the release of a new book takes you down certain paths. When Biohack hard-launched on Amazon about three weeks ago, I imagined that I’d be doing more

Biohack party

At last week’s book release party for my new thriller “Biohack,” about 30 people — including several notable figures from the tech, marketing and media worlds — turned out for

hell-divers3

Title: Hell Divers III: Deliverance Author: Nicholas Sansbury Smith Pages: 352 My rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Release date: May 15, 2018 If you’re familiar with Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller series

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This