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Lee Schneider

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Lee Schneider is a novelist, futurist, producer, and veteran storyteller whose career spans television, film, podcasting, and books. He is the author of the Utopia Engine Trilogy—SURRENDER, RESIST, and LIBERATION — a sweeping speculative saga about artificial intelligence, climate manipulation, and human resilience.

Schneider’s inspiration for the Trilogy grew out of real-world crises. During California’s devastating wildfire seasons, unable to go for his regular runs, he filled notebooks with story ideas about climate change, AI, and the collision of technology and humanity. Many of the “futuristic” concepts in the series — corporate control of data, memory manipulation, and weather engineering — are already being tested today.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 21 ratings · 7 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Surrender really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Angel Playbook: An Essential Guide for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberation (The Utopia Engine Trilogy, #3) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be More Popular: Culture-Building for Startups really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicle of a Startup Town: Los Angeles 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Powerful Online Message Delivery: Free and Low-Cost Platforms for Creative Companies and Individuals by Lee Schneider (Goodreads Author), Kate Durocher (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ace your eBook it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resist (Utopia Engine Trilogy Book 2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stacking Sugar Cookies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicle of a Startup Town: Los Angeles by Lee Schneider (2016-05-26) by Lee Schneider (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lee Schneider's Blog: 500 Words

Issue 95 - My emotional support robot is not returning my calls

Welcome to 500 Words, a letter about indie publishing, artificial intelligence, and the creative process.

Though I write about AI, I'm not an AI fanboy. I'm interested in interrogating IA, which means I'm going to question all of its basic assumptions. The reason for this is that I am a recovering early adopter, meaning that once I was an enthusiastic grabber and tester of all new technology. But

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“Instead, the best way to think of social media is as another layer in natural human language. Social media — or digitally enhanced conversation — is really just part of the evolution in human conversation.”
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“Now we all have a published voice that can reverberate as far as a population is willing to carry it, rather than as far as a marketing budget will extend.”
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“Social researcher Robin Dunbar contended that we can’t have meaningful interactions with more than 100 to 200 people at any one time in our lives.”
― Steve Sammartino, The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of Business is Small

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“the way we touch and interact with smartphones is a very different type of human movement, one not seen before.”
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“If we take it to an even deeper level, this distinction of being at some kind of ‘connected terminal or device’ will evaporate as well. Everything in our world — from packaged goods, to the windows in our homes — is on the verge of being connected.”
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