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12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
by Jeanette Winterson
100% brilliant. This isn’t something I’d normally pick up based on subject matter (the history and future of artificial intelligence), but I’ll read anything by Jeanette Winterson because everything she does is smart and funny and provocative and boundary pushing in ways that make her texts feel like sitting in a favorite college course with a favorite professor (one who’s mastered the art of the snarky aside).
These essays are about technology, yes, but they’re even more about what it means to be human, both the good and the bad of it—love, empathy, innovation, etc., and also greed, misogyny, and ignorance, both willful and not—and everything in between. If your summer reading goals include something outside your usual fare and/or something that makes you think, I highly recommend this. And if you want to explore some of the same territory in fiction, Winterson’s “Frankissstein” (dumb title, great book) is also excellent.
These essays are about technology, yes, but they’re even more about what it means to be human, both the good and the bad of it—love, empathy, innovation, etc., and also greed, misogyny, and ignorance, both willful and not—and everything in between. If your summer reading goals include something outside your usual fare and/or something that makes you think, I highly recommend this. And if you want to explore some of the same territory in fiction, Winterson’s “Frankissstein” (dumb title, great book) is also excellent.