George Donnelly is a Web3 developer, Bitcoin adoption pioneer and science fiction author.https://georgedonnelly.com/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2025-flash-flood-5/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2025-flash-flood-5/Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:51:19 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2024-haters/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2024-haters/... haters, naysayers and jealous trolls are coming for you.Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:40:13 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2022-03-24-short-history-of-money/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2022-03-24-short-history-of-money/Money is a promise that your sacrifice will pay off in the future, because we build civilization on a set of promises we make to each other.Fri, 25 Mar 2022 12:40:13 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-12-27-trust-dead/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-12-27-trust-dead/Trust is breaking down in our societies — trust not just in big institutions but also in the natural good of the common man.Wed, 27 Dec 2017 12:40:13 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-12-07-trump-anthology-now/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-12-07-trump-anthology-now/How much is a laugh worth to you? A nickel? A dime? But buying them individually is cost-prohibitive, am I right?Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:30:13 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-12-07-all-you-can-imagine/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-12-07-all-you-can-imagine/Limits are a thing of the past. The only ones that matter now are those that you decide to enforce on yourself. We are entering a new era of our civilization where our imaginations reign supreme.Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:03:12 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-11-28-reality-story-tell/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-11-28-reality-story-tell/Some stories are scientifically true. Others tell truths of the heart. Some may actually fly in the face of all we can prove to be true, and yet give us the mindset we need to succeed.Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:15:20 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-11-14-everything-is-ludicrous/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-11-14-everything-is-ludicrous/Everything is ludicrous. Just the fact that we exist and can think and communicate is a cosmic prank. A wonderful one to be sure, but a gag nonetheless.Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:49:46 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-11-09-we-can-do-better/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-11-09-we-can-do-better/How easy it was for a Russian company to manipulate Americans through social media during the last US presidential election. People are furious about it. For a $200 spend, they got opposing sides to protest each other in a small Texas town. Their ads reached 146 million people on Facebook. Twitter drooled to sell them a 15% reach of their users.Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:11:05 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-10-31-this-wedding-sponsored-by/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-10-31-this-wedding-sponsored-by/The future of work is cooking, cleaning and caring for the infirm. No more steel workers, no more retail clerks, no more autoworkers. It’s just nurse’s assistants, personal aides, wind turbine maintenance guys and software developers.Tue, 31 Oct 2017 11:56:08 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-10-25-build-the-future/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-10-25-build-the-future/While you endure the North Korea nuclear tests, the rip-out-your-throat battles for political hegemony and the desperate unknown of whether Katy Perry wants her ex back or not, it’s good to remember one thing.Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:08:24 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-10-03-china-credit-scores-hack/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-10-03-china-credit-scores-hack/Give us more positive news, goshdarnit, George! Like maybe that there was an alien invasion that had finally ended all our petty squabbling and united us against a common foe…Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:51:11 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-09-28-robots-rise/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-09-28-robots-rise/We could soon have so much electricity from green power sources and other neat tricks that we’ll begin throwing it away like un-drunk bottled water or expired lettuce.Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:24:21 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-09-22-its-a-distributed-future/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-09-22-its-a-distributed-future/It’s a distributed future. Beneath all the hype about global warming and other boogie monsters, people are working from the bottom up to to build a new world.Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:54:10 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-09-18-filter-bubbles/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2017-09-18-filter-bubbles/Look forward to a world of city-states where people on the political left and people on the political right live separately. And maybe not just in separate mental spheres, telling themselves different stories about what’s happening in the world, but living in separate cities. Maybe even cities that are at war with each other, like in ancient Greece.Mon, 18 Sep 2017 21:54:40 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-10-20-introducing-monster-maelstrom-24-extremely-short-halloween-stories-briefest-moments/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-10-20-introducing-monster-maelstrom-24-extremely-short-halloween-stories-briefest-moments/Looking for some short but high-quality entertainment over coffee or a snack? Grab Monster Maelstrom and fill your fleeting moments with 24 creepy and chuckle-inducing Halloween flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per engaging storyThu, 20 Oct 2016 08:33:54 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-09-24-bite-sized-stories-anthology/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-09-24-bite-sized-stories-anthology/Got a few moments to kill over coffee or a snack? Grab the new Bite-Sized Stories anthology FREE and fill your stolen moments with 33 indie flash fiction tales. Just 5 minutes per story.Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:03:55 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-19-death-shop-2016-bards-sages-nominee/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-19-death-shop-2016-bards-sages-nominee/I woke up Tuesday morning to discover that my dystopian science fiction novella <em>Death Shop</em> is nominated for the 2016 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards. Now, I swear, this is not one of those things that I found in my spam folder, 'Just $50 and You Too Can be an Award-Winning Author!' Really, I swear.Thu, 19 May 2016 13:51:39 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-10-no-le-entiendo-chicago-cabbies-poem/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-10-no-le-entiendo-chicago-cabbies-poem/From 1994-1997, I drove a Chicago cab. It was the perfect complement to a University of Chicago education. I freelanced for a large corporation, I saw the seedy underbelly of the Loop and I rubbed elbows with hardworking immigrants from two dozen different countries. One thing I learned quickly is that white cabdrivers were rare. So I wrote a poem about it (back in 1997). Here you go.Tue, 10 May 2016 17:31:29 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-05-valiant-endured-17-sci-fi-myths-insolent-grit/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-05-valiant-endured-17-sci-fi-myths-insolent-grit/We did it again! This time, twelve authors enjoyed a meeting of the keyboards and we’ve got a thrilling 17-story science fiction anthology to show you for it. I love it. It’s exceeding my expectations. Have a look for yourself:Thu, 05 May 2016 12:52:31 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-02-a-gift-from-my-roommates/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-05-02-a-gift-from-my-roommates/It was 1997 and I rented a basement room in a ground floor apartment in Chicago’s still-questionable Wicker Park neighborhood (2300 block of West North Ave) with a friendly couple and a high-class drug addict.Mon, 02 May 2016 20:46:37 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-01-02-want-to-save-the-planet/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2016-01-02-want-to-save-the-planet/Human Free is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George Donnelly set in 22nd century South Africa after an ecologically-motivated man-made holocaust. Read it free as I write it on WattPad. Check it out now!Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:12:09 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-11-25-announcing-pink-slip-prophet/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-11-25-announcing-pink-slip-prophet/Announcing Pink Slip Prophet, a robot cyberpunk novella with a touch of comedy about Ian Blake and his struggle to reclaim his self-respect after losing his job to robots in 2034 Philadelphia. Now available at Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited. Review copies are also on offer.Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:17:20 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-10-08-i-wrote-a-science-fiction-anthology-with-7-libertarians-and-survived/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-10-08-i-wrote-a-science-fiction-anthology-with-7-libertarians-and-survived/For a limited time, Liberty.me brings you FREE the first libertarian science fiction anthology in a decade: Defiant, She Advanced: Legends of Future Resistance.Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:40:24 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-02-24-about-your-automated-future/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-02-24-about-your-automated-future/Pundits increasingly agree that we can expect a future where we simultaneously enjoy material abundance and suffer from a lack of employment opportunities. Robots, including software, will replace workers - even skilled workers such as lawyers and computer programmers.Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:04:36 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-02-17-gates-of-fire/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-02-17-gates-of-fire/Is war inevitable? Is it a part of the human condition? Can we end all war, forever? Should we even try? What would stories be without war, the largest, most tense and free-ranging form of conflict ever?Tue, 17 Feb 2015 06:51:16 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-01-17-defiant-she-advanced-anthology/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2015-01-17-defiant-she-advanced-anthology/That science fiction anthology project I blogged about last June? Well, exactly six months later, on December 22, I released it. "Defiant, She Advanced" is ten stories of defiance and daring. Here is the full story.Sat, 17 Jan 2015 10:15:14 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2014-11-11-doubleplusunhate/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2014-11-11-doubleplusunhate/In Doubleplusunhate, a son goes off his meds, a dad discovers his love for his son and their lives go off the rails in an Orwellian future.Tue, 11 Nov 2014 06:01:39 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2014-04-04-insights-first-novel/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2014-04-04-insights-first-novel/I wrote my first novel. It''s called Lando Cruz and the Coup Conspiracy. This is a journey that started in Northeast Philadelphia in 1980 when my dad got me an adult library card. Along the way, I learned a few things.Fri, 04 Apr 2014 11:28:05 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2008-04-28-keep-away/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2008-04-28-keep-away/Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:40:13 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2008-04-04-peninsula-infinite/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2008-04-04-peninsula-infinite/For a person that chooses to think positively, all roads are open.Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:40:13 GMThttps://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2002-05-28-election-day-medellin/https://georgedonnelly.com/posts/2002-05-28-election-day-medellin/Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Medellin. The spring rains let up for the elections and the normal blue skies returned. At 10AM the novia and I were downtown watching the military helicopters circling above and waiting in line so she could vote.Tue, 28 May 2002 12:40:13 GMT