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About: Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman tells of America’s extraordinary achievement mobilizing industries to make war machines through the eyes of two businessmen. Mr. Herman is a historian writing from the perspective of […]
About: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything by Michio Kaku is an accessible, and probably too optimistic look, at how quantum computing could solve many humanities problems. Mr. Kaku is an educator, futurist, and theoretical physicist. My rating […]
There are many interesting ideas in Technofeudalism , including how traditional capitalists are going to simply be vassals to big tech
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age is actually two books in one. Many parts of this book are worth rereading and internalizing
I did enjoy the book though, I didn’t learn as much. Tech culture is fascinating from the inside and even more fascinating reading an outsider’s view of it
The Circle’s plan is to make each and every person a member, track their movements, film them, and shine a light on government, as well as private citizens
The author warns about authoritarian uses of technology, but also states that the utopia many leftists envision is only superficial.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff could very well be the most important book written since the invention of social media.
The novel does jump around, and when that happens the reader has to pay attention. Even if you do , what’s real and what’s not is always up for questioning.
Dr. Ryland Grace woke up on a space-ship with no idea why he’s there. His crew-mates are dead and the spaceship is millions of miles from home.
