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Evolution, Fiction, Novel, Science, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

May 28, 2021January 20, 2021

Evolution – Stephen Baxter

If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.

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Future, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Sociology  4 Comments

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021

Technopoly – Neil Postman

The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.

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Non-Fiction, Religion, Science, Sociology  0 Comments

December 11, 2020November 9, 2020

McMindfullness – Ronald E. Purser

It isn’t enough to have just a valid point. You also need to have a sound argument.

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Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

April 17, 2020December 19, 2019

This idea must die – John Brockman (ed.)

Try as I might, I just can’t think of who this book could possibly serve.

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Medicine, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

April 3, 2020December 30, 2019

The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz

I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.

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Artificial Intelligence, Fiction, Science, Technology  0 Comments

November 22, 2019September 11, 2019

Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future – Marshal Brian

A decent vision polluted by very poor execution.

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Fiction, Future, Non-Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019

Age of the Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil

How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science, Trauma, Uncategorized  0 Comments

February 8, 2019November 11, 2018

The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk

Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.

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Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

February 1, 2019November 14, 2018

Contact – Carl Sagan

This is one of the most rich and complex book I have read in some time.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Current Events, Cyberpunk, Essays, Future, Humanism, Internet, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

December 28, 2018August 24, 2018

What to think about Machines that think – John Brockman

You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut

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