The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires – Tim Wu
Companies that manage information will always try to be monopolies.
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Oil! – Upton Sinclair
A classic novel that might not be read too much anymore, it has some pretty contemporary themes. Written from back when an American could also be a socialist
The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason – John V. Fleming
The enlightenment produced a lot of good ideas, but it also had a whole lot of really terrible ones.
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Vonneut’s most famous novel, largely not about a person being un-stuck in time.
If Anyone Builds it Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All – Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
One can think that AI isn’t going to come alive anytime soon and still think that it is a very bad idea to build an AI
The Vacuum of Space – Julia Huni
One of the worst books I have read in some time.
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do – Erik J. Larson
AI isn’t going to reach the Kurzweilian dream any time soon
Satyricon – Petronius (Sarah Ruden, JP Sullivan)
The Satyricon is one of those books that shock people mostly because they had no idea how vulgar the Romans actually were.
Rancore – Gianrico Carofiglio
After some of his non-fiction, I read a detective story by Carofiglio
Failures in Polymathy 