The Science and Questions of my Fiction
The Future of Human Relationships and its Impacts on Us (and on my Novel’s Characters)
You may wonder what this topic has to do with my novel, which is not a self-help book or a sociological treatise. But though part of the story is set on a planet with a fantasy-like environment, it is a book about the future. And, as I try to peer into this future,...
Bacteria Produce Electricity
Microbe-Generated Electricity The production of electricity by bacteria is a topic which has interested me for a long time, even from before I started writing Conquerors of K'Tara. Of course, we humans are also capable of generating electricity, but we do so only to...
How Useful and Reliable is Memory in the Evolution of Human Societies?
Memory. By the time I write the next line, I may have forgotten what I wanted to say, or how I wanted to say it. And if I were to write about an event I witnessed or lived, whether in the remote or near past, I might not remember it exactly as I initially registered...
Will spoken language still exist in the future?
I have been wondering for a while now whether, as humanity continues its social evolution and revolution with respect to communications, we will reach a point where most languages will in fact disappear, and whether speech itself might disappear entirely. A third...
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