ChatGPT and other “generative AI” chatbots are causing disruption in many areas. You’ve probably read a lot about student essays written by machines and then passed off as the student’s own work. You may not have read so much about journalists and bloggers using the same tools to generate news copy. Then there are other…
I’ve taken my socks off. That’s how you know Summer has arrived here in my Antipodean hideaway. From now until Autumn, I won’t be wearing socks except for going to the shops and other public outings — and not always then! It’s a tiny token of the freedom of not having to be employed but…
To those who have been enjoying my foray into crime writing, I can only apologise. Metaman was a book I had to write. I’d been reading around the Fermi Paradox – the question of where all the alien visitors are, given that it’s quite feasible for lots of them to have come here by now…
In the brave new world of electronic publishing – in which we live right now – picking up an unknown book by an unknown author has become a much bigger risk than it used to be in the old, print-only days of ten years ago. This is because, on the major retail sites, the line…
