Michael D. Britton

Samsung recently offered a demo of a new interface that will allow users to interact with their devices via a mind link. I’ve been waiting a long time for the keyboard to finally be replaced by something better. It just seems so archaic to have to tap (or swipe) on [...]

i09 has a roundup of today of tales where the elimination of a single minion would’ve truly foiled the evil plot of the antagonist. I particularly like the Harry Potter, X-Men, and Voyager examples (there are actually MANY examples in Star Trek, if you think about it). My short story, [...]

The much-anticipated film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s awesome book, Ender’s Game, is set for release later this year. I am excited for this one! If you haven’t read the book, you really should. In brief, children fight aliens in a “video game;” but in reality, they are controlling remote [...]

47 years ago last month, we made first contact with another planet for the first time. Well, by “we,” I mean, the Russians (but I really mean “we Earthlings”). Pretty cool. (Of course 47 is a great number when talking about First Contact.) Now…when are they going to make first [...]

Apparently, some people look to Twitter to provide predictions on things such as the U.S. economic “jobs report.” That’s a phenomenon that itself would’ve been hard for anyone to predict just seven short years ago (Twitter just turned seven last month). And it’s certainly not something that Nostradamus would’ve predicted. [...]

Just this month, paranormal investigators in Chattanooga, Tennessee, checked out a library to search for spooks and spirits that may be lurking amid the volumes. Maybe ghosts like to read. Who knows? I have no idea if they found any ectoplasmic entities, but it made me think of my short [...]