As the title indicates this is the online home of the miscellaneous musings of Harry Meier. While the blog is mostly a place to post my shorter writing. I may also spew out into the æther, excerpts from novels, random pictures, commentary on my journey, or just the odd random rant, all by me.
Who may you ask is Harry Meier?
Well, I’m glad you asked. Harry Meier, aka Harold J Meier III of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Harold Meiers, third of his name, and keeper of the sacred ring bologna, is a Deputy CIO by day and writer of sci-fi by … whatever time of day he can be.
With a day job in tech you may ask why I would want to keep thinking about the future when I live in it every day. Well, for one, the word Enterprise is used way too much in my presence. If my dementia were broadcast as a hologram, then every time someone said that word, the starship of the same name would make a flyby.
Secondly, one of the nicer parts of my day job is researching up-and-coming technologies. Many of these are new ways to crunch old numbers, many are new fancy ways to show people whose title begins with C a new pretty graph, and more and more (make that every freakin day), dealing with people slapping a LLM in front of an old product and proudly announcing “Now With AI!!!” However, I also get to do things like tackling the implications of all those LLMs and looking beyond them to what real artificial intelligence looks like. I also get to work on helping people with internet access and tackling big issues like the effects of climate change on my city in the desert. I’ve always been a tech optimist and a believer in people’s abilities to use it for good.
Even while I’m trying to mitigate people’s using it for bad.
Sci-fi has always dug deeper than just tech, looking at the implications and societal impacts of potential futures. My writing often plays within and around the concept of family and relationships amidst all the turmoil the march of time and tech can throw at us.
I hope you enjoy my writing. If you do I’d love to hear about it in the comments.
Have Fun,
Harry
