Topher Cliver

Topher Cliver is a Gen Xer who has been fascinated by technology since the early 1980s, when his family brought home an Atari 800 computer. His career has spanned the software, incentive/rewards, and digital advertising industries. That lifelong fascination with technology — and with what machines might one day know — is what led him, four decades later, to ask what two of America's greatest minds might say if an artificial intelligence could speak for them.

The Founders' Reckoning is his second book, and Book One of a series of staged

debates in which artificial intelligence gives voice to America's founders. Book

Two, The Pamphleteer and the President, brings John Adams and Thomas Paine to the

same stage; it is forthcoming. Each volume stands alone.