Alongside writing, Thomas Weaver is a tech entrepreneur. His last startup was acquired by Just Eat Takeaway. Despite swearing to family and friends (none of whom believed him) that he would never run another startup again, he recently started a new project in stealth backed by Silicon Valley's largest tech accelerator. The concept is focused on bringing some of the ideas explored in his debut novel, Artificial Wisdom, to life, specifically around communicating in augmented reality.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
I've heard it said that a first book is born out of worry. That was certainly the case for me. After Trump became US President in 2016, and the Brexit referendum tipped towards Leave, I started to worry about the impact of online manipulation and disinformation on humanity's future. If it was so easy for (as seems likely) foreign powers to influence large groups of people in relatively unsophisticated ways, using social media bots, what would happen to us when technology, parti
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