#nearfuture

Michael Shottermichaelshotter
2025-06-22

ICYMI: The Kindle edition of "Hostile Takeover" is FREE worldwide until June 25 via Amazon!

Join Patrick T. Cosgrove for his "retirement party" in a dark and cutthroat near-future instance of reality that could well be our own.

amazon.com/dp/B0CYXKSYZS

@specfic @horrorbooks

A 5-star Goodreads review of Michael Shotter's story "Hostile Takeover" from Brian Bowyer
Michael Shottermichaelshotter
2025-06-21

Looking for something to read? Love speculative fiction? Near-future dystopian thrillers? Well, I've got a story for you! Kindle edition FREE worldwide until June 25th:

amazon.com/dp/B0CYXKSYZS

@specfic @horrorbooks

A positive Goodreads review for Michael Shotter's story "Hostile Takeover"
Michael Shottermichaelshotter
2025-06-20

FREE WORLDWIDE UNTIL JUNE 25! - As chosen by the reading community, the Kindle edition of "Hostile Takeover," one of the iconic speculative-fiction thrillers from my latest release "8: Tales of The Big Men from The Nod/Wells Timelines" is FREE via Amazon!

amazon.com/dp/B0CYXKSYZS

@specfic @horrorbooks

Lawrence Nault- Stone & SignalMountainHermit
2025-06-02

It’s not what AI knows.
It’s what AI knows about you.

A world where data becomes control.
Where AI art drowns out the human voice.
Where convenience replaces truth.
And we don’t know the difference...

Maybe we’re already there.

RePHleXions: Echoes of Existence

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A silhouette of a person in business attire stands facing a futuristic digital environment with flowing streams of bright blue data and light patterns. The scene depicts a Matrix-like visualization of data flow with vertical columns of glowing blue light and digital particles surrounding the figure. This image accompanies an article titled "Meta begins taking your personal data for AI training in 2025: What to know before it happens" by John, published on 08/05/2025 at 04H00.
The Fabulist Magazinefabulistmagazine
2025-05-30

In this anxious parable about an invasive, obsessive phone app, data mining is the least of our worries … A TYRANNY OF DESIRE, by LeeAnn Perry fabulistmagazine.com/a-tyranny







Wild Flint BooksWildFlintBooks
2025-05-29

FREE for KU users! Near-future Earth (2080) where toxic soil requires neural interfaces for cultivation. Immerse yourself! 🌍 amazon.com/dp/B0F9KLHRXJ

TinJar (Author: "A New Faith")TinJar
2025-05-25

23 May: Do you prefer to write urban or rural settings?

Definitely, because they are dynamic and hence, difficult to capture in terms of their spirit. Since I write - this makes it quite exciting and scary. settings are kinda locked in and I find evoking them almost like deploying a commonly used acronym. Dunno!

Jadonjadon1
2025-05-25

It's hard to believe I've written the first draft of a novel! Until a few months ago, I never dreamt I'd attempt such a thing!

I've written enough regulatory-strength tech docs to make an auditor's eyes bleed. However, I hadn't written a lick of outside of school.

Now, I've got an 90k word manuscript, and an editor lined up to help with the next steps.

Stay tuned!

2025-04-16

As businesses streamline operations, #AI and #blockchain-powered Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (#DAOs) could emerge as a potential replacement for traditional hashtag#management layers linkedin.com/posts/shishs_dece

#nearfuture #futureofwork
#web3 + #AgenticAI

Michael Shottermichaelshotter
2025-04-09

ENDING SOON! - April 11 is the last day to get the Kindle edition of "Fair Game" for FREE via Amazon.

This bite-sized hybrid of near-future sci-fi, horror, and world-building has it all, but don't take my word for it...

amazon.com/dp/B0D2B43V86

@specfic @scifi @horrorbooks

Brian Bowyer's 5-star review of Michael Shotter's story "Fair Game"
Michael Shottermichaelshotter
2025-04-03

ENDING SOON: April 4th is the last day to get the Kindle edition of "Hostile Takeover" for FREE! This unique tale of terror, twists, and speculative fiction set in a dark near-future from The Nod/Wells Timelines "delivers" but don't take my word for it...

amazon.com/dp/B0CYXKSYZS

@specfic @horrorbooks

A 5-star review of Michael Shotter's speculative-fiction story "Hostile Takeover" from Brian Bowyer
2025-03-06

The Model is the Product | Vintage Data https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/model-is-the-product (interesting) #AI #models #APIs #NearFuture

Text Shot: I've read a lot of misunderstandings about DeepResearch, which isn't helped by the multiplication of open and closed clones. OpenAI has not built a wrapper on top of O3. They have trained an entirely new model, able to perform search internally, without any external calls, prompts or orchestration:

The model learned the core browsing capabilities (searching, clicking, scrolling, interpreting files) (…) and how to reason to synthetize a large number of websites to find specific pieces of information or write comprehensive reports through reinforcement learning training on these browsing tasks.
DeepResearch is not a standard LLM, nor a standard chatbot. It's a new form of research language model, explicitly designed to perform search tasks end to end. The difference is immediately striking to everyone using it seriously: the model generate lengthy reports with consistent structure and underlying source analysis process. In comparison as Hanchung Lee underlined all the other…
2025-03-06

The Model is the Product | Vintage Data vintagedata.org/blog/posts/mod (interesting) #AI #models #APIs #NearFuture

Text Shot: I've read a lot of misunderstandings about DeepResearch, which isn't helped by the multiplication of open and closed clones. OpenAI has not built a wrapper on top of O3. They have trained an entirely new model, able to perform search internally, without any external calls, prompts or orchestration:

The model learned the core browsing capabilities (searching, clicking, scrolling, interpreting files) (…) and how to reason to synthetize a large number of websites to find specific pieces of information or write comprehensive reports through reinforcement learning training on these browsing tasks.
DeepResearch is not a standard LLM, nor a standard chatbot. It's a new form of research language model, explicitly designed to perform search tasks end to end. The difference is immediately striking to everyone using it seriously: the model generate lengthy reports with consistent structure and underlying source analysis process. In comparison as Hanchung Lee underlined all the other…
notBread 🏴‍☠️zeerphling@kolektiva.social
2025-03-02

In the near future, the USA becomes the only country still reliant on fossil fuel extraction after effectively enshrining the industry into law. The country still hordes its tons of petroleum, securing the resource after every other country in the world successfully transitioned towards renewables. This leaves the rest of the world forced to invest in carbon capture technologies to negate the CO2 still being pumped into the air by the only country left standing in the past.

#storyIdea #scifi #nearFuture #ClimateCrisis #worldBuilding

2025-02-13

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