Chris Lodwig writes speculative fiction about how technology becomes tradition, tradition becomes faith, and individual choices shape civilizations across centuries. His Systemic Series—Systemic (2020), Host (2023), and Interface (2026)—follows a world transformed by superintelligent AI from apparent utopia, to collapse, to the cultures that rise from its remains. After thirty years building technology platforms, Chris writes about technology not as magic but as infrastructure: designed by people, trusted by institutions, and capable of consequences no one planned. He holds degrees in Comparative History of Ideas and Communications from the University of Washington and co-hosts the No “I” in Writing podcast. He has played in bands, built camps at Burning Man, thrown art parties, and surreptitiously installed monoliths in parks. He lives in Seattle with his wife and dog.