The United States Army’s original Jane 1.0 was a highly secured software system similar to the other voice interface programs of the 1900s and early 2000s. They used a voice actress to record her speaking parts and Jane spent most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I nearly died a month ago. My appendix burst. It burst big. I blew a 1.5 centimeter hole in the side of an organ that is only 2 centimeters thick. I have been healthy my entire life. I have never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fleet 2300 Project did not have an easy life. Many politicians did not even see the need for it. Our fleets were larger and more powerful than ever, and every warship was sturdier than older designs. Improved technologies had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Apache Nation that rebuilt itself after Yosemite fell was far different from the urbanized culture they had before. Most of their young men and women went to War for one thing. And those who stayed behind wanted to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bitching Betty became the primary name of voiced computer systems in America for nearly half a century. Then Apple released Siri to the consumer market and everything changed. Microsoft answered with Cortana and Amazon made Alexa. They became mascot and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fleet 2300 Project was a revolution in warship and fighter technologies. It consolidated a century of study into alien technologies and combined it with our best engineering to make a new fleet that could stand up to anything in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
History says the Apache were nomadic hundreds of years ago. That changed when we relegated them to their reservations in the 1800s. They became just as urbanized as the rest of America over the centuries that followed, and outside of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The American military had a long tradition of using voice-activated systems as early as the 1970s with the original Bitching Betty. She served as the voice of the Pre-Space F-15 fighter platform, though was not a true computer generated voice.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 2205, we learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have created many characters that walk through the stories that I write. And in many ways they are real people in my mind. Sometimes they feel more real than the physical world around me. I often find myself asking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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