The future will be filled with robots and AI that assist humans in every type of job. In this blog we explore the real world and fictional inventions that are transforming healthcare in the 2020s and the 2050s.

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AI vs. Hidden Word Puzzle

I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok to solve a hidden word puzzle in a JPEG image. All of them totally failed the test -- but they all failed different ways. * Gemini refused to analyze the image. * Grok returned an image of a scrabble board with Greek lettered...

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Random Story with Infinite Bookshelf

Chapter 1: Processing [This is the first chapter of a Random Story generated by my "Infinite Bookshelf" app for AI writing. I think it's a cool concept. Feels familiar, like Beetlejuice or Ghost Town, but also original, like it's going some place different. You can...

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Echo: The Birth of Digital Humans

Chapter 1: The Backup “Dr. Saito, you did the right thing cooperating with us.” FBI Special Agent Sam Porter surveyed the advanced laboratory, mentally cataloging the unfamiliar technology. The government had stumbled onto a goldmine. “I didn’t have many choices,” the...

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Telesurgery Fiction is Now Fact

In a groundbreaking medical milestone, Dr. Vip Patel, founder and medical director of the Global Robotics Institute at AdventHealth Celebration, successfully performed a robotic prostatectomy on a patient located in Angola, Africa — while operating from the Nicholson...

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AI Does Robotic Surgery (Kind Of)

[Summarized from "The Batch" newsletter: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-313/] An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention. What’s new: Ji Woong (Brian) Kim and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and...

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AI Can’t Write This

How can a writer remain relevant in the age of AI? Right now, AI tools, guided by a human, can write an entire novel in a single day. Soon, the AI won't even need a human. So what's the future of the human writer in this world? The AI doesn't need me to write...

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Bookshelf Repair

If you've tried the Infinite Bookshelf app, you've discovered how powerful it is at writing stories. https://rddsmith.com/the-infinite-bookshelf/ But you've also found some of the missing features or bugs: Drop-down menus use white text on a white background. You have...

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The Infinite Bookshelf

AI Makes 50% of Authors Obsolete Business leaders everywhere predict that AI could eliminate 50% of white-collar jobs within 5 years (e.g. CEOs from Anthropic, Ford, Nvidia… ). What does that mean for novelists and business writers? When might these digital brains...

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Infinite Bookshelf

I Built an AI App That Writes Any Book You Want to Read—In Real Time As a novelist who's spent years crafting stories about robotic surgery and global adventures, I've watched AI writing tools evolve from laughably bad to genuinely impressive.  The Infinite...

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Generational Workplace

Generational Workplace

Gen-X. Millennials, and Boomers... working together since 1349. This is not a new concept. Enjoy my latest journal article (free download). https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/USGVBYKP5BHHBCQGAWUJ/full?target=10.1080/08956308.2025.2443371

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