MARK JACOBS
wants
to read:
I am very interested in a book about Artificial Intelligence. I am tired of the hype being promoted about AI, and I am interested more what it means to be human.
About:
As a former Chief Information Officer, I learned that more information does not necessarily make a hard decision easier. Information can reveal patterAs a former Chief Information Officer, I learned that more information does not necessarily make a hard decision easier. Information can reveal patterns and sharpen our understanding. It cannot tell us what we ought to do. Someone, a human, still has to decide—and live with what happens next.
That space between knowing and deciding is where my fiction lives.
Solairi’s Lattice is a near-future thriller about an extraordinary AI that uncovers truths powerful people and institutions may not be ready to face. Beneath the suspense is a question that stayed with me throughout my career: When a machine reveals an answer, who gets to decide what it means?
My curiosity also reaches into the past. My first book, The Quirky Heart of Ted the Grocer, tells the story of my Uncle Ted and the small grocery store he ran in his community. It is a different kind of book, born from the same instinct: to look closely at people whose choices and stories might otherwise be overlooked.
I write for readers who want a story that moves—and a question that stays with them after the last page....more
