Today, debut YA author of Metawars: Fight For the Future, Jeff Norton, is stopping by my blog as part of his Metawars Blog Tour! Read on for Jeff's thoughts on technological advances, and how they inspired his novel.
The pace of technology is relentless.
The potential of today’s interconnected world is both amazing and amazingly scary. And it’s fantastically fertile ground for fiction.
I initially conceived of my new book, METAWARS: FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, six years ago when listening to then Environment Minister David Miliband speak about individual carbon credits. That was the autumn of 2006, and I had been on facebook for only one month. I couldn’t shake the story idea of a teenager trying to save the internet from a monopolistic social network, but it wasn’t until I was stranded by the Icelandic ash cloud in 2010 that I started crafting the book. By then, four years later, the world was even more interconnected. When the billowing ash grounded Europe’s planes, and I was unable to fly home; I turned to the web to stay connected.
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The pace of technology is relentless.The potential of today’s interconnected world is both amazing and amazingly scary. And it’s fantastically fertile ground for fiction.
I initially conceived of my new book, METAWARS: FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE, six years ago when listening to then Environment Minister David Miliband speak about individual carbon credits. That was the autumn of 2006, and I had been on facebook for only one month. I couldn’t shake the story idea of a teenager trying to save the internet from a monopolistic social network, but it wasn’t until I was stranded by the Icelandic ash cloud in 2010 that I started crafting the book. By then, four years later, the world was even more interconnected. When the billowing ash grounded Europe’s planes, and I was unable to fly home; I turned to the web to stay connected.
