Neal grew up on a small family farm, the second of five children, in the postwar decade of the fifties. His mother, an army nurse, and his father a medic, met in the Philippines and settled in the Pacific Northwest at the end of WW II. As a young adult, he participated in the protest and hippie movement of the late sixties and co-owned a head shop. After graduating from college Neal worked as a computer programmer, and later as a systems and network manager, giving him a first hand view of a thirty year technological revolution that changed society and our political system in ways that were unimaginable to it’s creators.
Neal grew up on a small family farm, the second of five children, in the postwar decade of the fifties. His mother, an army nurse, and his father a medic, met in the Philippines and settled in the Pacific Northwest at the end of WW II. As a young adult, he participated in the protest and hippie movement of the late sixties and co-owned a head shop. After graduating from college Neal worked as a computer programmer, and later as a systems and...
What Do You Think, Mr. Collins?
In a parallel universe more technologically advanced than our own, adoption of artificial intelligence at the city of Paradise has proceeded rapidly, with no effective government or technical controls. From construction workers to IT professionals, working men and women face the grim prospect of a future without a job.
With any new technology,...