Author of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Converging Technologies on Authors and the Publishing Industry  Links Articles and podcasts about the future by Joanna Penn: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/future/ “9 Ways That Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Disrupt Authors and The Publishing Industry” - The Creative Penn podcast - July 1, 2019 GPT-3 (Wikipedia) 1 the Road by Ross Goodwin (Hardcover) Futurebook conference and Wired Live conference Stripe and PayPal The EU Digital Services Act Joanna (JF) Penn’s Payhip store for direct purchases of her books BookFunnel  Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly Oculus Quest 2 Virtual Reality headset “Google wants to offer audio versions of more books using auto-generated narrators” by Abner Li at 9to9Google - December 3, 2020 Next Week’s Guest Bryan Hudson, founding pastor of New Covenant Church in Cincinnati and author of Biblical & Social Justice: What Is It?: An Everyday Person’s Guide to Understanding Justice and the Role of the Church in Our Society  Morning Journal flash briefing for Alexa If you’d like brief daily updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. From your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s up?” or “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each day except Sunday, usually by 7:30 am Eastern Time.  The Kindle Chronicles is now available at Audible Podcasts. The only thing missing are ratings! If you have time, please consider leaving one in order to help others learn about the show. (Thanks to David Enzel for letting me know about this.) Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.