by Steve Skojec | Aug 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
A pre-review note: The other day, I got an email from Google, excitedly telling me I had passed 4 million views on the photos with my Google reviews. “You’ve just accomplished what very few people have done: reached 4,000,000 photo views!” the email...
by Steve Skojec | May 4, 2020 | Brave New World, The Big Questions
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is a global health and economic crisis unlike anything in living memory. Although we’re “all in it together,” as the saying goes, the issues in play have caused an incredible amount of division. Since the middle of...
by Steve Skojec | Feb 4, 2020 | Brave New World, Tech
As we’ve all been going about our busy lives, something unusual has been happening rather quietly on the technology front, and it’s both amazing and unsettling. It’s the resurgence of something known as “deep learning,” and it’s...
by Steve Skojec | Feb 4, 2020 | Art, Cool Stuff, Creativity
The creative process is such a weird, sloppy, unpredictable thing. Sometimes the more you try to grasp at it, the more elusive it becomes. “Like an eel in an oil slick,” as the old (possibly made up) saying goes. I’ve got a couple of story ideas...
by Steve Skojec | Jul 24, 2019 | Science Fiction, Writing
I’ve been thinking a lot, lately, about the kinds of stories I love the most, and why. When it comes to novels, movies, television and even games, I gravitate almost exclusively towards science fiction. There are a couple of reasons I love the genre. I love it...