A Prophecy of the Present and Future
November 24, 2022 - 34 min
Title: A Prophecy of the Present and FutureDescription: I am really excited to be joined by author Craig W. Stanfill to talk about all things of Artificial Intelligence, dystopian futures and defiance in a heavily controlled world. Craig and I will discuss his latest Sci-fi dystopian novel, Prophecy of the Heron. It is ripped right out of the headlines!Learn More About our Guest:Craig W. Stanfill, author of the novels Terms of Service and Prophecy of the Heronhttps://www.craigwstanfill.com/prophecy-heronOriginal Publication Date: 12/8/2022You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places:www.atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comClick here to support Beyond the Big Screen!https://www.subscribestar.com/beyondthebigscreenhttps://www.patreon.com/beyondthebigscreenClick to Subscribe:https://www.spreaker.com/show/4926576/episodes/feedemail: steve@atozhistorypage.comwww.beyondthebigscreen.comhttps://www.patreon.com/historyofthepapacyParthenon Podcast Network Home:parthenonpodcast.comOn Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/groups/atozhistorypagehttps://www.facebook.com/HistoryOfThePapacyPodcasthttps://twitter.com/atozhistoryMusic Provided by:Music from "5/8 Socket" by Rico's GruvUsed by permission.© 2021 All Rights Reserved.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=210vQJ4-Ns0https://open.spotify.com/album/32EOkwDG1YdZwfm8pFOzUu"Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Begin Transcript:[00:00:00] This is Beyond the Big Screen podcast with your host, Steve Guerra.Thank you for listening to Beyond the Big Screen Podcast where we talk about great movies and stories. So great. They should be movies. Links to learn more about our guests today can be found in the show notes you can support beyond the big screen on patreon.com. By joining on Patreon, you help keep beyond the big screen sustainable and get many great benefits.Go to patreon.com/beyond the big screen to learn more and sign. Find show notes, links to subscribe and leave Apple podcast reviews by going to our website beyond the big screen.com. And now let's go beyond the big screen.[00:01:00] Thank you for joining me again on Beyond the Big Screen. I am really excited to be joined by author Craig w Stanfield to talk about all things artificial intelligence, dystopian futures, and defiance in a heavily controlled world. Uh, before we get started, uh, Craig, can you tell us a bit about your background and what made you want to write, uh, fiction, particularly science fiction?Okay, well first of all, in terms of my background, I've got a long history of, uh, work as a technologist, as a software entrepreneur. Got a doctorate in computer science, artificial intelligence in the 1980s. I've had a long career in the technology industry, primarily, you know, starting out with artificial intelligence and then moving forward into enterprise computing where I've worked on technology that is used to collect and analyze data for marketing purposes for a lot of [00:02:00] very, very big companies that are, uh, household names around the country.And so I've got a lot of insight into both what you can do using AI to. Make decisions automatically. And collect the data that Theis need for that, for that, uh, decision making. And then to affect change in the world, uh, by reaching out into the, uh, telephone network. So there's, there's parts of the world where technology that I've built, uh, affects what shows up on people's cell phones in a number of countries, uh, where.You know, you pick up your cell phone and the cell phone sends you a marketing message as well, Sam, why? I develop a lot of that technology so I know what can be done and I know what is being done and it starts to worry me. When you look at places like Google and Facebook, uh, and Twitter and all the others.And how much of an effect they can have on reality as you see it, or [00:03:00] the perceived reality as opposed to the real reality by tailoring what you see and making things that they don't want you to see go away. And then, uh, use of rewards and, uh, punishments if you, uh, depending on your behavior, and it worries me.It's a fundamental change to. What it means to be a liberal democracy. I'm using liberal in the very general sense of liberty. And, uh, it, that's what really drove me to work. I just saw this happening and I felt that the best way to reach out with some of these concerns was to set it in a fictional world where you could see, well, if this keeps going, here's what could happen.I'd like to, I think t
