David Brin

Here you will find information about DAVID BRIN as science fiction author, scientist & transparency/internet security expert, public speaker & business/governmental consultant, and blogger/social media influencer. Giddy optimists foretell our coming transcendence to a golden age of AI-managed abundance. Glowering doomers predict that vast cyber-minds — cold and unsympathetic — will either crush old style humanity or render us irrelevant. Meanwhile, geniuses fostering the artificial intelligence boom clutch clichés rooted in our wretched human past, or else cheap sci-fi ... as critics demand state regulation, ‘kill switches,’ or coercive programming. Or to seek a soft-landing with AI by ‘teaching ethical values’ to synthetic minds who see innumerable counterexamples in their training sets, then collude and manipulate for advantage, when given 'agency.' The lessons and tools we’ll need, in order to achieve a ‘soft-landing’ with Artificial Intelligence, already exist in modern society — in a myriad ways that modern citizens right now interact with each other, and in how we raise our biological children. Tools that we used to build a gradually improving, enlightenment civilization. But first, shall we stop proclaiming hoary clichés and turn back to examine what already works? Find out more , or purchase Ailien Minds . ( AmazonCommissionsEarned) Now available for pre-order — revised and updated with new material. Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award–winning author David Brin has taken readers on exciting adventures in his fiction with his Uplift universe and novels like The Postman . Now he invites them on a remarkable journey into the mind of one of America’s greatest science fiction writers: himself. Scintillating and incisive, Through Stranger Eyes is an opinionated free-for-all that is sure to enlighten and entertain, possibly infuriate, or make you laugh. This is the world as David Brin sees it. Brin shares his thoughts on books like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonrider series. He also discusses movies like The Matrix , George Lucas’s Star Wars saga, and TV’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer . He sings the praises of familiar authors like Isaac Asimov, Jack Williamson, and Arthur C. Clarke, as well as unfamiliar works like popular science books that touch on his own ideas as an astrophysicist. He even expounds on the storytelling process and the craft of writing. Find out more , or pre-order Through Stranger Eyes ( AmazonCommissionsEarned) Adventure, resilience, and the power of unlikely friendships come together in this thrilling new addition to David Brin's Out of Time series! From colonial New England, 17th-century farm girl Patience Whately has survived war, loss — and worse. From the 19th century, Norwegian snow-sport prodigy Sondre Auverson knows how to navigate any blizzard. And from the summer of 1978, Lee Jarrett is equal parts courage and curiosity, armed with only a harmonica and a stubborn streak. Joined by two young volunteers from the future, they must brave alien forests, strange snow, and a hostile wilderness with secrets buried deep beneath the drifts. Can five kids from across time out-think an alien world? Would you want to be Yanked out of time, if it meant you could help save the future? Purchase Snowdance today, or learn more about all the books in the Out of Time series. ( AmazonCommissionsEarned) David Brin's science fiction novels and short stories have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages. Novels include bold and prophetic explorations of our near-future, including The Postman (filmed in 1997 ) plus Earth and Existence . His Uplift series plunges farther, envisioning galactic issues of sapience and destiny (with star-faring dolphins!) and includes Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War . Short stories and novellas have different rhythms and a