Tech, Fiction, & the Future
Welcome! Here, you’ll find stories about Tech, Fiction, & the Future. Check out my sneak previews, trivia challenges, cartoons, and gallery of futuristic inventions. You can read about me directly, but the interviews might be more fun. I’ve met some great people along the way and discussed everything from post-post dystopias to biological computing and explainable AI. I really enjoy connecting with my readers, so please contact me with your thoughts and questions.
100 years ago, doctors sent a heartbeat over a phone line, as reported by Popular Science in 1921 , but devices enabling remote care may have finally found their moment: The pandemic could be a long-awaited turning point for telemedicine
This piece looks back 100 years into Popular Science‘s archives to a story that covered the first experiments with electricity used to measure human emotions. We’ve come a long way, but polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice. Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still […]
“The need to rapidly deploy supplementary, state-of-the-art medical care — including the ability to properly quarantine — to regions of the world where existing medical infrastructure has been overwhelmed by contagion or crippled by catastrophe has never been greater.” How about airship hospitals, an idea first floated 100 years ago? Check out my new article […]
Bill talks about everything from future technologies such as DNA-based data stores to the link between romance and science fiction (no kidding) to what motivates him to write every day … Learn More about Interviews
