Writer · AI & digital specialist · Futurist
Exploring the future we’re already living in.
Craig Thomler spends his professional life helping organisations and communities understand and successfully adopt emerging digital and AI technologies. As a regular conference speaker and trainer, he draws on his experience to write how-to guides and speculative fiction — noir, science fiction, horror, and fantasy — exploring how well-intentioned systems may shape and distort societies.
One thread runs through everything Craig does: learn a technology before it’s respectable, explain what it actually means for people, and argue loudly for the safeguards that mean communities benefit rather than just endure.
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Sci-fi noir thriller · The Solano Files #1 · Debut novella
Seekers
Everyone is chipped at birth. Every focused moment converts to cash.
Jack Solano is a private detective in a city that runs on attention — and someone has found a way to steal it.
Rain-slicked streets, corrupt institutions and a wisecracking detective in a world one bad decision away from our own.
Chandler’s wit. Hammett’s economy. In a city run on theatre and theft.
More fiction — in progress
The Solano Files (series)
Near-future noir. Jack Solano, private eye, in a city where attention is the currency and everyone performs.
Signals (standalone)
Near-future science fiction. What happens to humanity when our records stop matching our reality?
Humanity’s Womb (series)
On a planet that has lost contact with Earth, the clash between naturally and artificially born humans may define the future of humanity itself.
The writer
Journalist, how-to author, blogger, game designer, novelist. Craig co-authored twelve non-fiction books, wrote for major newspapers, and designed PC and tabletop games. His award-winning eGovAU blog is archived by the National Library of Australia.
The specialist
Gov 2.0 pioneer, AI and digital transformation leader specialising in making technology useful. Internationally recognised conference speaker & trainer. Thirty years of helping institutions understand technologies arriving faster than their playbooks can manage.
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