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December 19, 2025November 4, 2025

A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World – David Kushner and Koren Shadmi

A short primer on Anonymous in graphic novel form

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Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Schlock, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

December 5, 2025October 28, 2025

Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth – Robin Hanson

A waste of time which you shouldnt read

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Computer Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Technology  0 Comments

January 31, 2025November 5, 2024

The Singularity is Near – Ray Kurzweil

Nearly 20 years old now, this book of pseudo religion does not hold up all that well.

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Economics, Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

November 27, 2020October 2, 2020

The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mcafee

If you come into a book looking to answer just one question, you may come out of it disappointed.

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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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Capitalism, Economics, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

August 16, 2019April 5, 2019

Makers – Cory Doctorow

Makers by Cory Doctorow really seems to cement the point that Doctorow just really hates the Disney corporation.

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Current Events, Future, Non-Fiction, Politics, Technology  0 Comments

August 9, 2019February 26, 2019

Abundance: The Future is Better than you Think – Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kolter

The authors of this book think that everything is going to be fine, and that the future is going to be great. But to what extent are the correct?

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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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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Cyberpunk, Future, Non-Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  1 Comment

November 30, 2018August 20, 2018

Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark

Bright future ahead? I mean, maybe. It could also be rather bleak. Max Tegmark thinks that it all depends on what we prepare for.

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October 5, 2018July 2, 2018

Data and Goliath – Bruce Schneier

People keep telling us that we are being spied on, but what does that really mean, anyway?

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