My name is Getz Parker and I’m obsessed.You get what you’re born with, and obsession is part of my bundle of neural divergence tended by my AI companion, JK. I was quietly working on a medieval system to discover truth, when analog riddles defying digital solutions opened a door to death. Obsession made me walk in, only to meet a conspiracy of toymakers, thieves, and a gatekeeper to a world reaching out through the interstices of virtual and real. It was a conspira...

My name is Getz Parker and I’m in the information business, which is not sexy.But when an autistic child asked for help, I entered a world in which life and death are as hard to tell apart as magic and technology. My artificially intelligent companion spends more time on my mental health than on problem solving, so it may be no surprise we were stumped by puzzles leading from boardroom to bedroom, from séance to sacrifice, and from trepidation to transformation. We ...

I should have checked a medieval prophecy that exiled a hermaphroditic queen before getting involved. My name is Getz Parker, here to remind that good intentions may produce bad outcomes, like murder.I was sponsoring a circus for fellow neurodivergent children, when a religious revival brought its brand of alchemy and death to town. They needed entertainment, the circus needed funds, what could go wrong? I did not envision competing saviors scheming to end the world’s population. I...

Moments into the future, magic dances at the intersection of virtual and real…Getz Parker is a neurodivergent genius, a reluctant amateur sleuth whose good heart joins an obsessive nature to force him into action when friends run afoul of life’s problems, especially murder. He and his AI companion navigate two realities, and a space in between, to solve crimes whose motives remain hidden behind a shroud never meant for public inspection, where magic and technology blur together.

Ask not what AI can do for a company, rather what artificial intelligence may do to a company.How does a company successfully integrate artificial intelligence into its operations?What are the problems in doing so?And how does the introduction of AI into society change the answer to the first question?As companies delay or even cancel initiatives in artificial intelligence, Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent...

There are books about product and companies but no books about a company as a product.The Vice Chair arrives from orbit around a corporation with a doctrine of leadership without authority for business warriors who reject control, live in a world of influencers, and aspire to become one.Process and culture converge as competitive advantage by refashioning priorities for Industry 4.0 through unorthodox lenses in a no holds-barred treatment of influence and l...

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeles...

Some time after the incomprehensible death of his son, Joan Miró has settled into his new job working the overnight shift at a Hasty Market in Toronto. He has plenty of time to think beneath the fluorescent lights of the convenience store: of ghosts and late nights, of downtown living and dying, of customer service and self-preservation, of the beauty of the night sky, and of the attempts people make to connect with one another despite seemingly insurmountable distances. These fragments of...

Can We Really See the World in a Fair and Unbiased Way?The Map Maker is the story of a young adventurer who travels to Paradise Island with the aid of a magical map. Here, he begins his own “knowledge quest” to better understand why people see the world just the way they do.Arguably, one of the most important traits any person can possess is the ability to see things from another person’s point of view. This story shows how different people, with differing viewpoin...

In a faraway land, a princess named Aurora lives in a castle, honing her enchantments amid a slumbering kingdom! When the princess was just a baby, a wicked fairy cursed the realm with unending sleep. But a kind fairy had her own spell to cast—she saved the newborn and granted the girl the gift of magic! Now, Aurora is the only one who can awaken her subjects by concocting a potion made up of the world’s rarest ingredients. Faced with strange places and fantastical creatures, can Aurora su...

In this fascinating and practical guide, BCG's Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller break down the science of imagination and offer tools, tactics, games, and strategies for helping teams and organizations expand the art of the possible.A six-step process for increasing imagination. A how-to book, through and through.Fascinating learnings from the fields from neuroscience, computer science, evolution, anthropology, and philosophy.Color visuals, charts, and figure...

Anuptaphobia :"The fear of being or staying single like forever.""The fear of remaining unmarried or being married to the wrong person."Anuptaphobia Lover is the story of a young man Ryan trying to prove his presence to his world while also trying to find his love. Which did he successfully achieve and which did he lose. What happenend in his life. Read the story to find out life of Ryan.