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About the Author
Ray Crowell is a strategist, storyteller, and former national security professional who now works at the intersection of technology and humanity. He writes speculative fiction that doesn't predict the future—it wrestles with it.
Drawing on a background in conflict operations, corporate innovation and venture capital, Ray explores the quiet architectures of control in a world increasingly optimized for convenience and consensus. His work has been informed by everything from AI governance frameworks to grief theory, and he believes the future isn’t something we enter—it’s something we consent to, often without realizing it.
Our Technate Tomorrow is his first novella, rooted in the forgotten technocratic movements of the early 1900s and reborn in the shadows of today’s ambient surveillance, algorithmic governance, and curated forgetting. His writing asks not what technology will do, but what it might undo in us—and whether remembering is an act of resistance.
Ray lives at the edge of systems—with one foot in the coded world, and the other in the human one. This story is his bridge.