Hoam Rowe, a notorious, penniless, and reckless optimist, forgot to study the whole way through his first year of Law School due to his preoccupation with writing Life Begins…, a novel based on the Technological Singularity becoming a reality in the not-too-distant future. The Singularity (as it is commonly called) means that mankind developed a technology that is far more intelligent than humans. Mr. Rowe takes this idea, mixes in experiences from his globetrotting, and crams as many controversial jokes he could to make a wicked story. 

Technology increasingly turns everyday life into a dream-world, filled with life-saving drugs, HDTVs, Phones that do everything, etc.  Life Begins… goes further into disturbing technologies like ‘snowflake’ babies, those children birthed by their adopted mothers, and most controversial of all, a full immersion monitoring system that tracks all vital information regarding your mortal existence. This system is called a Digital Life Recorder (DLR), like DVRs such as TiVo, but for your life. The Technological Singularity is doubtlessly a bizarre blip on our horizon.  The characters that invent the technology and others involved in its emersion into our world find themselves up against some tough questions. Is technologically instigated immortality possible? To what end will our technological advancement lead? Could the Singularity light a path to the end human strife and war? These are just some of the questions found in Life Begins…

Hoam Rowe is no choirboy pansy, nor, according to a therapists in good standing, is he a morally decrepit psycho. He is what he is: a young author with an uncanny knack for finding parallels where no one else would think to look. He learned this over the course of his life. The skills were honed in the mountains of the third world with only a train schedule and watch to get him where he wanted to go. Life quit being appointments and obligations and became an exercise of will.

Mr. Rowe established his writing career in one devilishly provocative stroke. He brought in a Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) graduate for illustrations. The book involved all his time and intellect, thus putting him in the hot-seat with faculty at Marquette Law. It delayed the launch of Life Begins… Fortunately, the book is still ahead of its time.