A review by jeffmauch
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything by Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith

3.0

I grabbed this book in the hopes it would be similar to the science books written by cartoonist Randall Munroe, the creator of the xkcd internet comics. The authors of this book have their own widely popular internet comic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, that I also enjoy, hence my logic that I would like this. The problem here is that they just missed the mark on the humor aspect of the book and got way too in depth with the technology. It's not that the book was bad, I just really struggled to get through a number of the chapters because they were just going too deeply into topics that I just didn't care about. The interspersed comics were mostly amusing and relevant to the topics at hand, but just weren't enough.