Grieg is an autistic former Marine with ADHD whose ambition to fly the space shuttle was interrupted by a heat injury on MCB Quantico. Since then he’s made a living as a software engineer and has developed a fascination with edge cases. “Move fast and break things” sounds fine until there are people in the impact area, and there always are. He grew up with the bulletin board systems of the 1980s and felt firsthand the effects they had on his social life and psychological well-being.

As a Michigander who’s lived in ten of the United States and been to almost all of them, he’s seen most of America’s many cultures. A philosopher at heart, Grieg has always considered the ethical implications before the technical ones. His nonfiction book “Hippocratic Pragmatism: Ethics for Natural and Artificial Intelligence” will be out this summer.

He lives near Puget Sound totally outnumbered by females, including his wife of 30 years, their daughter, a bunny-tailed calico cat, and a large caramel-and-white cattle dog. He loves sailing and plans to see the world, on a sailboat, because while airliners are quite good at getting somewhere, they lack the adventure of going somewhere. 

Any world he finds  worth living on is a world that still knows a land called “Far Away.”