Non-Fiction – Page 11 – Failures in Polymathy

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.

This book is meant to be a critique of the newest form of post-modern philosophy, and what it ultimately morphed into.

There are a lot of books I can throw into the ‘read for the wrong reason’ category. This is one

David Crystal wrote a nice little coffee-table of linguistic factoid.

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

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

Have certain aspects of the past few year’s political climate not made much sense to you? You are not alone.

Venice isn’t just a gem of a city, it is also one of the most historically significant cities in the world.

Paging Dr Pangloss.

Reading this felt like a review course, but maybe that isn’t always a bad thing.