primarily a nonfiction book that uses fictional stories as thought experiments meant to both help readers understand the most important technologies that you expect to play a role in our lives over the next 20 years, and to convey how these technologies could change our lives, our identities, and our conceptions of the world in ways that are very difficult for us to imagine. Do you think that's a fair description of the book and how would you describe it? Yeah, actually, I couldn't describe it better myself. That's exactly right. What I would add is that the reason I wanted to use the fictional stories is to make technologies more understandable and even entertaining to people who might otherwise find high tech like AI to be intimidating. And because AI is so important, people should understand it and telling stories is the best way for people to understand. And that's why I have a co-author who is a well-known science fiction writer and he writes the stories and I create the what (4/38)
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