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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
I didn't realize I was reading a horror story when I picked this book up. Great examination on human kind, religion, and technology. This book asked a lot of uncomfortable questions with equally disturbing (possible) answers.
4.5 Stars.
While none of these ideas are particularly new to me, the author delved into them deeply and came up with ideas/conclusions that I had not previously thought about/ been exposed to.
There are SO many things I want to talk about, but they are the kind of topics that do better when having dialogue among a number of people. I suppose this would make for the perfect book club book, should you be lucky enough to find enough people willing to stay committed to this chunker!
I like the way the author presents his ideas and speculations. I like the ideas he encourages the reader to consciously engage with.
I'll do my best to write a formal review for this one and return at a later time. (Though please be warned: I say this ALL the time and rarely remember--its kind of who I am as a person right now).
While none of these ideas are particularly new to me, the author delved into them deeply and came up with ideas/conclusions that I had not previously thought about/ been exposed to.
There are SO many things I want to talk about, but they are the kind of topics that do better when having dialogue among a number of people. I suppose this would make for the perfect book club book, should you be lucky enough to find enough people willing to stay committed to this chunker!
I like the way the author presents his ideas and speculations. I like the ideas he encourages the reader to consciously engage with.
I'll do my best to write a formal review for this one and return at a later time. (Though please be warned: I say this ALL the time and rarely remember--its kind of who I am as a person right now).
Interesting, thought provoking, and relevant with the recent large language models AI availability.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Fantastic book. Deep, thought provoking. "...it is not easy to think and behave in new ways, because our thoughts and actions are usually constrained by present-day ideologies and social systems. This book traces the origins of our present-day conditioning in order to loosen its grip and enable us to think in far more imaginative ways about our future. Instead of narrowing our horizons by forecasting a single definitive scenario, the book aims to broaden our horizons and make us aware of a much wider spectrum of options."
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Maybe 3.5. I was quite disappointed with this one. Looks like the author had content for a short book of 1/5th size of this one, but had to write more for the publisher and it ended up as a mountain of repetitive thoughts on each subject. The whole digest of the book's title and clue is contained in the introduction and it's ending and those were for me the most significant parts. However, I am pretty sure that if you didn't read Sapiens then much of that filler content wouldn't be that redundant.
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I liked Sapiens more, but this book is still very good!
* Dataism concept is interesting: “If you experience something — record it. If you record something — upload it. If you upload something — share it”
* I have a couple questions in my head after reading this book: What drives us to share so much on social media? Is it evolution telling us that this is the thing we should do? Are we afraid that without sharing we’re not good enough, not relevant and it terrifies us? Is sharing (or this entire “dataism” thing) a new way of finding “the alpha” representatives of our species? Am I just a piece of meat with neurons?
* Dataism concept is interesting: “If you experience something — record it. If you record something — upload it. If you upload something — share it”
* I have a couple questions in my head after reading this book: What drives us to share so much on social media? Is it evolution telling us that this is the thing we should do? Are we afraid that without sharing we’re not good enough, not relevant and it terrifies us? Is sharing (or this entire “dataism” thing) a new way of finding “the alpha” representatives of our species? Am I just a piece of meat with neurons?