A review by andy_mcloughlin
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen

medium-paced

4.5

A remarkable book.

Twelve years on, the predictions it makes about AI are prescient to the point of being a fairly banal description of our present reality.

Almost half of the book is about chess.

The last chapter exploring the prospect of an ageing, unequal society is provocative in the best way. I will have to revisit it before I can have a strong sense of how realistic it is.