Towards a Celebrationist Future (A Personal Note)
Like many of us, I’ve had a lot of pain in my life. It’s part of living. (As I’ve written on Quora, fears about robots suffering are unfounded.) Recently, I delivered a speech entitled “The…
Author: Jonathan
Jonathan Kolber is the author of A Celebration Society.
My greatest strength and my greatest weakness is that I live in the land of "could". Fortunately, my wife is that unique individual who simultaneously keeps one foot in the land of should, but the other always firmly in the land of "what's true now".
I adore Siberian cats as a breed, and am the proud co-companion to two of them. (One is mentioned in the book as an "original Celebrationist".) I could rave for 15 minutes on the outstanding and unique attributes of the Siberian breed, all of which (except one) are adorable, amusing, or delightful.
My favorite SF authors are Heinlein, Peter F. Hamilton, and John Scalzi. I enjoy the Otherworld series by Yasmine Galenorn. I loved the first three (or four) books of The Eye of the World series, and also the last (twelfth), though the ending could have been stronger. I've reimagined how the ending might have gone, on the verge of a Celebration Society.
My favorite songs are Tunhuang by Kitaro, Celestial Soda Pop by Ray Lynch, Dancing Birds by Himekami, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac, New World in the Morning by Roger Whittaker, and others I'm forgetting. My personal theme song is "Take the Future" by Foggy.
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