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AI is all the rage these days, isn’t it?

Dad would have been fascinated with how fast things have progressed. He was exploring this area over 30 years ago and was considering the nature of consciousness itself and whether that enigmatic phenomena can ever reside in some form of complex technology.

As for my book, I have studiously avoided having AI write any part of it. The book is entirely my own words, and that was very important to me; I wanted you to know that it is written from my heart, every single word of it. It is one human’s attempt to convey a very human story.

Having said that, I have recently asked AI to read my book and give me general feedback on it. Well, besides gushing praise (AI is such a flatterer isn’t it?!) it did make one point that I decided to act on: were my chapters were too long?

After initially resisting this suggestion (“what does a robot know about writing?” I huffed to myself), I realised it had a point, And when I reviewed the length of each chapter, I saw that the two longest chapters could legitimately be divided in two.

So, the upshot of all this is my book now has 12 chapters rather than 10:

1. Setting The World On Fire
2. The Railway Carriage
3. Leitmotifs
4. War
5. Kingfisher
6. Stagnation
7. Above The Laundrette
8. Epicyclics
9. A New Invention For Everyone
10. Hitting The Big Time
11. The Juggernaut
12. Turmoil

Chapters 6 and 9 are the new divisions, and I do think they focus Dad’s story better.

Anyway, I intended this as a kindness to my reader, I hope the new format will make my book more user friendly (to use another computing phrase!).