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A review by elste
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything by Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith
4.0
"Red light means bad, green light means good, no light at all means MOTHER OF GOD RUN FOR YOUR LIFE."
A super fun read – in a sort of weird twisted Outer Limits science project with you as the main course.
Programmable Matter, Augmented Reality, Synthetic Biology, Bioprinting, and Brain-Computer Interfaces – to name a few of the emerging technologies currently being researched and analyzed by scientists as we, mere humans, go about our daily lives in complete cluelessness. I couldn’t quite figure out if I was bowled over with stupefied amazement or paralyzing fear – honestly, at times it felt as if a positively giddy Victor Frankenstein had been working in a shiny new 21st-century laboratory. Sans morals. Sans ethics. Thank goodness for the author's well-timed comic relief, whew!
Seriously, Soonish presents some scary stuff, but also taps into the incredible vast potential science has to combat or effectively alter adverse human conditions for the positive. The most brilliant aspect of Soonish is that it opens the reader's mind to otherworldly phenomenal brain power. For the most part, I had no idea that much of the research covered in the book was a topic for discussion, let alone actively being researched in the lab and taken to the limits of actuality. We, humans, have such an amazing capacity for creative and innovative thought. It would be great if all that brain power was harnessed for the betterment of all, true!
A super fun read – in a sort of weird twisted Outer Limits science project with you as the main course.
Programmable Matter, Augmented Reality, Synthetic Biology, Bioprinting, and Brain-Computer Interfaces – to name a few of the emerging technologies currently being researched and analyzed by scientists as we, mere humans, go about our daily lives in complete cluelessness. I couldn’t quite figure out if I was bowled over with stupefied amazement or paralyzing fear – honestly, at times it felt as if a positively giddy Victor Frankenstein had been working in a shiny new 21st-century laboratory. Sans morals. Sans ethics. Thank goodness for the author's well-timed comic relief, whew!
Seriously, Soonish presents some scary stuff, but also taps into the incredible vast potential science has to combat or effectively alter adverse human conditions for the positive. The most brilliant aspect of Soonish is that it opens the reader's mind to otherworldly phenomenal brain power. For the most part, I had no idea that much of the research covered in the book was a topic for discussion, let alone actively being researched in the lab and taken to the limits of actuality. We, humans, have such an amazing capacity for creative and innovative thought. It would be great if all that brain power was harnessed for the betterment of all, true!