ina_midnight_reader's review against another edition
3.0
This book is very interesting and insightful, makes you think a lot and I it gives you some new (and sometimes weird) perspectives overall I think the content of the book is valuable.
However, and there has to be a however since I rated it 3, I lost the motivation to read it at the end. Maybe I just didn't vibe with the author's writing style. I was really invested in the first half of the book and started to lose interest gradually, with the exception of the last page that's probably my favorite part.
However, and there has to be a however since I rated it 3, I lost the motivation to read it at the end. Maybe I just didn't vibe with the author's writing style. I was really invested in the first half of the book and started to lose interest gradually, with the exception of the last page that's probably my favorite part.
jen_nicole's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
This was ok. There’s was a lot of information there but for some reason it felt disjointed. I LOVED Sapiens but this one just didn’t give the same vibe. It feels like its made up of scraps from Sapiens and expanded. I don’t know. I still liked it but not nearly as much as I liked Sapiens.
jonas_gehrlein's review against another edition
2.0
The book as a whole have several problems that all stem from being really broad in scope. Some of the examples like IBM`s Watson and sabermetricans overvalue the gain from computerization. Where there Watson hasn`t really had any big effect on medicine and the best results come from combination from coaches and sabermetricans. The history parts suffer from the author trying to put his frame down over the past. The automation of work does also not currently happen at a scale larger than prior automation under the industrial revolution and is probably not different in kind. Mostly the book is useful for the questions that it asks and not really for its answers.
sunrisesmiless's review
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
2.5
wrote a whole review on it as an assignment, would and could do it again
guuran62's review against another edition
4.0
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