Reminder: We will be having our March book club meeting this Sunday on March 29th at 5:00pm central time. We invite all of our members who able to attend to join us as always. The link to join is https://www.skool.com/live/swXMLYMYZSx If you are going to join us, you will have to be inside Skool either on your laptop or on the Skool mobile app. If you have any questions, please leave them below in the comments. See you Sunday! Paul Roberson

This is a repost from @Kimberly Davis and we both think this is worthy of a thread of its own. Here was her original question .. ---- I want to pose a question, going back to Asimov's three laws of robotics...restating the three laws below so you don't have to scroll back... 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. How do we define "robot"? Is a self-driving car a robot? I, for example, have begun thinking of my (NOT self-driving) car as my "mech." It is so sophisticated now with cameras and navigation systems that I can control with voice commands. I read in the Houston Chronicle last week about a Cybertruck accident where the driver--allegedly--accidentally set the vehicle to auto and then could not get control of it to prevent an accident. (It was a court ruling, and I know I have details muddled... please don't quote me!) I also want to point out how very ingrained these three laws are in our thinking about the future. They clearly shaped Data's behavior in Star Trek Next Generation. I'm trying to think of explicit examples, but they are everywhere. But at what point do we start calling our helpful devices "robots?" The cars are thinking for themselves, or trying to...

Hey Big Book Lovers! I just wanted to share a piece of exciting news for the big book love author community. We want to thank all the new authors who have been joining the community with something special as an act of appreciation. I know many of you guys have books you have written or are in the process of writing and are trying to figure out what to do next. Kathy and I have talked, and we want to offer you guys a 50% Founders Discount ($30/yr Annual Plan) for the Official Author Membership to the book club. As you guys know, when you joined the community on the free tier, you joined as a reader even if you are an actual author. You do not need to become an official author member of the book club to participate in the activities of the book club. But if you want to send your book to Kathy to read and be considered as an official pick of the book club, you need to join as an official author. Here is a link to go take advantage of this offer while its still available as the price will go up once we hit a certain number of founding members. https://www.skool.com/bigbooklove/plans I also made a video explaining this Limited Time Founders Offer to join for 50% Off so I encourage you to go watch that video here to learn more. https://www.skool.com/bigbooklove/classroom/2a481963?md=175ca60aa089413eb36cad12c5d68022 That is all I have for now! I will be sending you more critical information in the coming days so be on the lookout for that. We have big plans for the future so stay tuned! Onward and Upward My friends! Paul Roberson Community Executive Director