“Technology? Who needs it, eh?”

This is not photoshop or artwork.  It’s the engine room of a German submarine during the First World War.  How anyone knew which wheel to turn and when I cannot tell and many of us will feel claustrophobia just looking at the passageway portal.  We have come a long way in the last century, both in our mechanical ‘tools’ and international diplomacy. Sort of. In many fields we are just as primitive now as we were a century ago. The unfortunate fact of the matter is technology does not make us smarter, only faster. Yes, modern submarine engine rooms are substantially different but above the water line we are still bickering and tit-for-tatting over land, religion, economics and ethnic identity. We should be spending as much time getting along with one another as we do replacing wheels with gauges, switches and circuits. [See my ‘different mysteries’ at https://authormasterminds.com/master-of-the-impossible-crime. See my webinar at http://bit.ly/2zjyiYG.]

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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