James WJ Wilson

Author

James WJ Wilson is a novelist, screenwriter and engineering leader. For more than twenty years, he has built and led software teams across regulated finance, SaaS and digital businesses, where questions of trust, evidence, risk and human judgement are practical rather than theoretical. His fiction explores people living inside systems—technological, institutional and social—that work well enough to become difficult to question. His debut...

Do Spiders Leave Footprints?

Adrian Keene remembers being bitten by a spider when he was four years old. He remembers the yellow chair it was hiding beneath. The photograph says the chair was red.

Years later, the world has become much better at remembering.

Automated systems coordinate journeys, hospitals, relationships, public information and everyday decisions. They are...