Introduction

When I wrote papers for class I always started with an introduction. Not once did this introduction serve as an introduction to the essay I would later turn in to a professor. I rarely stayed on topic during the writing process as myriad thoughts transferred from poorly organized research to keyboard to blank page. It did, however, serve as a starting point to my writing process; not a foundation for the essay but a starting block to push off of that allowed the following sentences and paragraphs to flow. What follows is in the same spirit.

This blog is a place for me to write about topics that I enjoy and to engage with others in conversation about those topics. The two primary topics I will discuss are tech and science fiction. Modern technology is a theme that we are failing to engage fully. Patent and copyright law have been turned upside down by advances in mobile tech and governments around the world are struggling to cope with corporations that rise, fall and mutate faster that legislatures can regulate. bookNtech will try to help make sense of the landscape of modern tech and how it fits into our lives and our political system.

Secondly, I believe that science fiction literature is just plain fun and that's all there is to it has insights and advice that we can find nowhere else and is a field we can look to as we try to imagine what we want our world to look like in the future. But my degree is in political science, not literary criticism, so I'll mostly give quick reviews rather than in-depth discussions.

My goal is a mix of reporting news and making intelligent commentary three times a week. There are countless great news organizations already doing this, but I hope to add a fresh voice of insight. Other topics will creep in as the rythyms of life take their toll (eg. GO SPURS!, DIABLO III!) and I hope you will bear with me. So first post Monday at midnight EST.