How might the power of human dreaming, collaborations with A.I. rather than competition, and scenario planning for smart cities coalesce in the future?
The Downloadable Brain
Tag Archives: flash fiction
Smart Health?
Recently, I wrote a story for the first in a CyberSalon series of interdisciplinary, technology and policy investigations through science-fiction storytelling.
The first was on health and it’s worth taking a look; you can read the summary, watch the event and read the stories.
Eva Pascoe, chair of CyberSalon, describes the four stories as: “ranging from Robo-Bot for Health Insurance app going tragically wrong (by Jule Owen), a food-whores brothel where people pay vagrants to eat the unhealthy food for them (by Stephen Oram), examining the case of elderly medical surveillance app gone rouge (Britta F Schulte), to being lured into swapping your health data for a rare chance to travel to space (Ben Greenaway).
Take a look, and have a think… what future do you want (to avoid)?
A fiction called Error
A few years ago Literary Juice published an extremely short piece of mine. The magazine appears to have closed so here it is for your entertainment.
Error
I stepped into the oncoming traffic, turned to face the cars and raised my hand. They all swerved except the one driven by a human.
photo credit: marfis75 Don’t stop ( #cc ) via photopin (license)