Ep #35: A reflection on AI, tech, and dystopias from my own science-fiction books

Rethinking with Alex Torpey

May 13 2026 | 00:18:18

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Show Notes

In this special episode of Rethinking with Alex Torpey (aren’t they all special though?), I read a chapter from one of my science fiction books “Be Present” to give us a platform to reflect on technology, media, AI, attention, and societal organization and governance. In this chapter, which I wrote in 2021 while driving across the country, a character is introduced who in ~2120 is driving the adoption of a lucrative entertainment product that combines live biometric feedback data with CGI/AI generated visual TV/Movie content to modify streaming content that an individual consumes while they are consuming it to increase […]

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