Here I cheekily introduce 12 Irish writers via that comedic question of ‘the chicken crossing the road’. Seeking lightheartedness through writing experiments. — suffering still silver hen, a light across away he strode, rose tinted rosicrucian road, shows our route to question, claiming your soul, a free path for thee.

Where A.I. infers Artificial Intelligence, Alternative Ireland, Augmented Idiot, or simply some kind of electronic literature centric creative writer coming back into the light. …

The writer Terry Pratchett's Mort was truly funny, it was all about death’s apprentice as a character, how happy we were when we read it. Over a decade ago teacher Randy Pauch inspired all of us with a disarmingly authentic heroic attitude to his then immanent, and subsequent death, how…

In 2016 when asked what I thought the next big innovative thing would be… my response of not solving world poverty but “Godtech” provoked only quizzical open mouths.. In 2018 when such Godtech Gaps & Gobs eventually close, could an era of incorporealization bring Godcoin too? If we are all to profit from AI i.e… Let us pray it does… People asked what godtech actually was.. or might be ? To which I replied: “ Next gen quantum software technologies which intelligently mimic what we traditionally understand a God is.” … riffing.. erm.. waffling on… “or perhaps some form of superior cyberintellect, a technologically based force with the ability to…

A recent study suggested we purchase books because they reinforce our belief that we will allocate time to read them in our future. Buying books creates the illusion that we will grant ourselves that luxury of reading them. Simple as. Ahh books, books, books, the life of the mind…. beckoning…