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challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Another thought provoking feast of ideas and viewpoints. Every chapter bent my brain in a different direction, often on the same topic.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Really makes you think about life and what the point is.
As good as sapiens except replace your mind being blown about the past with becoming extremely apprehensive of the future
Like Sapiens but for the future. Not nearly as good as Sapiens. Very repetitive, and felt more disorganized than Sapiens. It spends the first part defining humanism and talking about its rise in the 20th century. Then it goes on to talk about possible threats to humanism. It's full of very cool ideas, but it could have been half the length and just as effective.
If you've ever read Hyperion or Illium by Dan Simmons, his vision of the future is basically the same.
If you've ever read Hyperion or Illium by Dan Simmons, his vision of the future is basically the same.
10/10 would read again, and it's not a meme this time.
With a lot of thought-provoking ideas and interesting theories, this book describes a future which will turn out to be anything but boring. Recommended.
With a lot of thought-provoking ideas and interesting theories, this book describes a future which will turn out to be anything but boring. Recommended.
Fascinating book. I don't often like the exaggerated approach of futuristic writers. But this one is very well researched and balanced. I highly recommend this book to everyone, no matter what your field of study/interest is. Few of the ideas that I really liked:
“We are striving to engineer the Internet of all things in the hope that it will make us healthy, happy, and powerful. Yet once the Internet of all things is up and running, we might be reduced from engineers to chips, then to data, and eventually we might dissolves within the data torrent like a clump of earth within a gushing river. Data is thereby threatening to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens have done to all animals on earth. [..] Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple in the cosmic data flow.”
“The world is changing faster than ever before, and we are flooded with impossible amounts of data, of ideas, of promises, and of threats. Humans relinquish authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms, partly because they cannot deal with a deluge of data. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st-century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don’t know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data, today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
“Science is conversing on an all encompassing dogma: all organisms are algorithms. Life is data processing.”
“Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. Non-conscious, but highly intelligent algorithms, may soon know us better than we know ourselves.”
“What’s more valuable, intelligence or consciousness?”
“We are striving to engineer the Internet of all things in the hope that it will make us healthy, happy, and powerful. Yet once the Internet of all things is up and running, we might be reduced from engineers to chips, then to data, and eventually we might dissolves within the data torrent like a clump of earth within a gushing river. Data is thereby threatening to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens have done to all animals on earth. [..] Looking back, humanity will turn out to be just a ripple in the cosmic data flow.”
“The world is changing faster than ever before, and we are flooded with impossible amounts of data, of ideas, of promises, and of threats. Humans relinquish authority to the free market, to crowd wisdom and to external algorithms, partly because they cannot deal with a deluge of data. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st-century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don’t know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues. In ancient times having power meant having access to data, today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
“Science is conversing on an all encompassing dogma: all organisms are algorithms. Life is data processing.”
“Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. Non-conscious, but highly intelligent algorithms, may soon know us better than we know ourselves.”
“What’s more valuable, intelligence or consciousness?”
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
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Fascinating read! There is just SO MUCH crammed in this book. I felt as though my brain grew with each sentence I listened too, even though sometimes I zoned out completely and had to go back oops.
This book started a little slower for me but once the discussion about AI and immortality and human enhancement began I was all-in because that stuff is so darn interesting.
I will say that unlike Sapiens, this was lacking in a timeline to keep it structured so sometimes I thought the ideas jumped around a little. It didn't make it hard to follow necessarily but it was different to what I expected.
Still a really great read, something I'll be talking about for a while and will definitely pick up again. Looking forward to reading the next book.
This book started a little slower for me but once the discussion about AI and immortality and human enhancement began I was all-in because that stuff is so darn interesting.
I will say that unlike Sapiens, this was lacking in a timeline to keep it structured so sometimes I thought the ideas jumped around a little. It didn't make it hard to follow necessarily but it was different to what I expected.
Still a really great read, something I'll be talking about for a while and will definitely pick up again. Looking forward to reading the next book.