Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
TLDR: “Pretty ridiculous. Very abstract and doesn’t even remotely deliver on the title”
I’ll be honest: I have no idea what this woman was talking about. I couldn’t make heads or tails of this book.
It was promoted as a book to frame technology. That was an attractive idea to me, I guess. But what I read was a mess.
Here are the chapter names:
- Systems
- Scale
- Legacy
- Matter
- Deviance
- Breakage
I mean, that right there tells you the level of abstraction we’re talking about here. Do those six categories explain technology at any level?
…I don’t know?
Every chapter had a central analogy about some real-world system, but in now way could I figure out how this related to the central topic of the chapter.
The book made me feel dumb, and I don’t know if it was just poorly written, or so smart it went way over my head. That can’t be a good sign, either way.
Book Info
- I have read this book. According to my records, I completed it on .
- A hardcover copy of this book is currently in my home library.