In the latest Scout Incoming Transmission, I interviewed award-winning writer Alexander Weinstein about how tech influences our lives. Weinstein has so much to say on the underlying trends that shape our future and the most important philosophical and ethical challenges we face. I recommended his stellar debut short story collection, Children of the New World, in a previous edition of my reading recommendation newsletter, “Akin to a literary Black Mirror, each story powerfully illustrates how technology impacts our lives and forces us to confront what it means to be human. In dissecting the future, Weinstein reveals hidden truths about the present.”
In the interview, Weinstein shares how he identifies and analyzes the ways technology is changing our lives, what makes the best speculative short stories so powerful, and what we can do to prepare ourselves for a world of accelerating change. Give it a read and let me know what you think.
Fun fact: Reading Children of the New World is one of the things that inspired me to write my very first short story, True Blue, which debuted at #1 in its Amazon category last month.