Could AI Ever Become a Real Psychohistorian?
One of the ideas that keeps coming back to me is whether we're getting closer to Hari Seldon's psychohistory. Today's AI can already analyze enormous amounts of data, identify patterns, and even make...
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Which Historical Figure Was Missing?
One thing I've always wondered about Riverworld is who didn't make it. Farmer resurrected billions of people from every era, and we got an amazing mix of explorers, kings, soldiers, writers, philosop...
The Not For Hire
One of my favorite parts of the *Riverworld* books was Samuel Clemens trying to build the **Not For Hire**. The guy wakes up in a world where nobody has factories, hardly any metal exists, and everybo...
The small ideas in sci-fi can be the ones that stick
I keep thinking about how the best science fiction is not always the book with the biggest empire or the strangest machine. Sometimes the part that stays with me is a small social idea. A custom, a l...