Robert James Sawyer

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Robert James Sawyer on Wikipedia

 

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Robert J. Sawyer on Singularity 1on1: The Human Adventure is Just Beginning
February 9, 2016

I have to admit that, despite the fact that he is a very well known and successful best-selling science fiction writer, I only recently stumbled onto Robert’s work.
I was taking a ride on the Toronto subway and couldn’t help it but notice the posters for his novel WWW: Wake. The idea of a blind girl seeing the internet and connecting with an emerging virtual intelligence peaked my curiosity so I had to read the book. I thought it was so captivating and brilliant that I went ahead and got book 2 (WWW: Watch) and 3 (WWW: Wonder) as soon as I finished book 1. After finishing the complete trilogy I can honestly say that the story only gets better and better as one moves through the different parts. I recommend it highly.
Having read the WWW series I just had to interview Robert. During our conversation with him we discuss issues such as: how and why he got interested in science fiction and technology; the motivation behind and goals of his work; his current book and film projects; his take on artificial intelligence and the technological singularity; philosophy and religion; and the future of humanity.

 

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TEDxManitoba - Robert J. Sawyer: To Live Forever - or Die Trying

Published on Mar 1, 2012

Robert J. Sawyer is one of only eight writers ever to have won all three of the world's top awards for best sciencefiction
novel of the year: the Hugo Award (which he won for Hominids), the Nebula Award (for The Terminal Experiment), and the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award (for Mindscan). The ABC TV series "FlashForward" was based on his novel of the same name. His 21st novel, Triggers, comes out in April 2012.

 

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Robert J. Sawyer on Quantum Night: There is nothing inherently unknowable

Published on Mar 25, 2016

About 4 1/2 years ago I interviewed Robert J. Sawyer on his fantastic non-dystopian AI trilogy WWW. To this day people keep telling me it is one of my very best interviews ever. Unfortunately last time we spoke via Skype and had a pretty bad video connection. So I vowed to myself that next time I will make sure we have the best possible quality of production I can deliver. And here we are today with my first cinema-wide 4k interview ever, which we shot at Robert J. Sawyer’s penthouse. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

During our 60 min discussion with Robert J. Sawyer we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: what Quantum Night is all about; the Philosopher’s Zombie phenomenon and the Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR Quantum Theory of Consciousness; why he keeps situating his novels in Canada; why good science fiction is about ethics and social commentary; the 2018 bicentennial anniversary science fiction party…

My favorite quotes that I will take away from this interview with Robert J. Sawyer are:

Canada is “the bridge of the Enterprise writ large.”

“There is nothing inherently unknowable.”

 

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Article "Voices in AI – Episode 16: A Conversation with Robert J. Sawyer"

by Byron Reese
October 30, 2017