George Donnelly
George Donnelly is a Web3 developer, Bitcoin adoption pioneer and science fiction author.
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If you're building something important and you're doing it well...
... haters, naysayers and jealous trolls are coming for you.
A Really Short History of Money
Money is a promise that your sacrifice will pay off in the future, because we build civilization on a set of promises we make to each other.
Trust is Dead
Trust is breaking down in our societies — trust not just in big institutions but also in the natural good of the common man.
The BEST Trump Anthology. Buy it Now!
How much is a laugh worth to you? A nickel? A dime? But buying them individually is cost-prohibitive, am I right?
It’s an All-You-Can-Imagine Future
Limits are a thing of the past. The only ones that matter now are those that you decide to enforce on yourself. We are entering a new era of our civilization where our imaginations reign supreme.
Reality is the Story We Tell Ourselves
Some stories are scientifically true. Others tell truths of the heart. Some may actually fly in the face of all we can prove to be true, and yet give us the mindset we need to succeed.
Everything is Ludicrous
Everything is ludicrous. Just the fact that we exist and can think and communicate is a cosmic prank. A wonderful one to be sure, but a gag nonetheless.
We Can Do Better
How easy it was for a Russian company to manipulate Americans through social media during the last US presidential election. People are furious about it. For a $200 spend, they got opposing sides to protest each other in a small Texas town. Their ads reached 146 million people on Facebook. Twitter drooled to sell them a 15% reach of their users.
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The future of work is cooking, cleaning and caring for the infirm. No more steel workers, no more retail clerks, no more autoworkers. It’s just nurse’s assistants, personal aides, wind turbine maintenance guys and software developers.
Build the Future, You Say??
While you endure the North Korea nuclear tests, the rip-out-your-throat battles for political hegemony and the desperate unknown of whether Katy Perry wants her ex back or not, it’s good to remember one thing.
In China, Credit Scores Hack You
Give us more positive news, goshdarnit, George! Like maybe that there was an alien invasion that had finally ended all our petty squabbling and united us against a common foe…
Robots Rise, Humans Decline
We could soon have so much electricity from green power sources and other neat tricks that we’ll begin throwing it away like un-drunk bottled water or expired lettuce.
It’s a distributed future
It’s a distributed future. Beneath all the hype about global warming and other boogie monsters, people are working from the bottom up to to build a new world.
Filter Bubbles, Warring City-States and Utopias
Look forward to a world of city-states where people on the political left and people on the political right live separately. And maybe not just in separate mental spheres, telling themselves different stories about what’s happening in the world, but living in separate cities. Maybe even cities that are at war with each other, like in ancient Greece.
Introducing Monster Maelstrom: 24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest Moments
Looking for some short but high-quality entertainment over coffee or a snack? Grab Monster Maelstrom and fill your fleeting moments with 24 creepy and chuckle-inducing Halloween flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per engaging story
Meet the Bite-Sized Stories Anthology: 33 Indie Flash Fiction Tales for Stolen Moments
Got a few moments to kill over coffee or a snack? Grab the new Bite-Sized Stories anthology FREE and fill your stolen moments with 33 indie flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per story.
Death Shop is a 2016 Best of the Independent eBook Awards Nominee
I woke up Tuesday morning to discover that my dystopian science fiction novella Death Shop is nominated for the 2016 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards. Now, I swear, this is not one of those things that I found in my spam folder, 'Just $50 and You Too Can be an Award-Winning Author!' Really, I swear.
No Le Entiendo: A Chicago Cabbie's Poem
From 1994-1997, I drove a Chicago cab. It was the perfect complement to a University of Chicago education. I freelanced for a large corporation, I saw the seedy underbelly of the Loop and I rubbed elbows with hardworking immigrants from two dozen different countries. One thing I learned quickly is that white cabdrivers were rare. So I wrote a poem about it (back in 1997). Here you go.
Valiant, He Endured: 17 Sci-Fi Myths of Insolent Grit
We did it again! This time, twelve authors enjoyed a meeting of the keyboards and we’ve got a thrilling 17-story science fiction anthology to show you for it. I love it. It’s exceeding my expectations. Have a look for yourself:
A 1997 Gift from My Roommates
It was 1997 and I rented a basement room in a ground floor apartment in Chicago’s still-questionable Wicker Park neighborhood (2300 block of West North Ave) with a friendly couple and a high-class drug addict.
Want to Save the Planet? Just Kill All the People
Human Free is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George Donnelly set in 22nd century South Africa after an ecologically-motivated man-made holocaust. Read it free as I write it on WattPad. Check it out now!
Pink Slip Prophet is Cyberpunk about the End of Jobs
Announcing Pink Slip Prophet, a robot cyberpunk novella with a touch of comedy about Ian Blake and his struggle to reclaim his self-respect after losing his job to robots in 2034 Philadelphia. Now available at Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited. Review copies are also on offer.
I Wrote a Science Fiction Anthology with 7 Libertarians; and Survived
For a limited time, Liberty.me brings you FREE the first libertarian science fiction anthology in a decade: Defiant, She Advanced: Legends of Future Resistance.
About your Automated Future
Pundits increasingly agree that we can expect a future where we simultaneously enjoy material abundance and suffer from a lack of employment opportunities. Robots, including software, will replace workers - even skilled workers such as lawyers and computer programmers.
Is War Part of the Human Condition?
Is war inevitable? Is it a part of the human condition? Can we end all war, forever? Should we even try? What would stories be without war, the largest, most tense and free-ranging form of conflict ever?
Defying the Odds with Defiant, She Advanced
That science fiction anthology project I blogged about last June? Well, exactly six months later, on December 22, I released it. "Defiant, She Advanced" is ten stories of defiance and daring. Here is the full story.
Doubleplusunhate
In Doubleplusunhate, a son goes off his meds, a dad discovers his love for his son and their lives go off the rails in an Orwellian future.
11 Insights I Gained from Writing My First Novel
I wrote my first novel. It''s called Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy. This is a journey that started in Northeast Philadelphia in 1980 when my dad got me an adult library card. Along the way, I learned a few things.
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions
The Peninsula of Infinite Possibilities
For a person that chooses to think positively, all roads are open.
Election Day in Medellin
Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Medellin. The spring rains let up for the elections and the normal blue skies returned. At 10AM the novia and I were downtown watching the military helicopters circling above and waiting in line so she could vote.