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“I enjoy Suarez – I’ve been reading him since ‘Daemon,’ which was so good. He has a great ability to envision how technologies we deal with today would be manifested in extremes down the road. The visions of the future that he puts together are scarily realistic. You’re reading it and thinking,…”
“Bill Gates recommended this book. It’s not terrible, but not at all actionable, either. It’s a breathless prediction of what the future of AI, computing power, and gene editing will enable. The author paints a picture of amazing breakthoughs and things-we-cannot-image, etc. I don’t know what to do…”
“I read this because I’m a fan of Francis Collins, who is the current head of the NIH, a devout Christian, and who wrote one of my favorite books about faith: The Language of God . This is the story of the Human Genome Project, which was something I was only vaguely aware of. I’ve never been…”
“As it turns out, this started as a screenplay, then got turned into a novel, with the full knowledge that it would become a movie. The novel was released in 1990, and the movie in 1993, which means movie prep must have begun immediately after the manuscript was complete. Not surprisingly, it reads…”
“ Another page-turner. More horror than science, unlike Airframe . Truly scary in places, with a nihilistic bent. Got me wondering if this is something that could actually happen. ”
“I can’t decide if this book was depressing or not. It came out 19 years ago, and even though the author is a little behind in his predictions, a lot of what he wrote about is slowing coming true. ‘The Singularity’ is that moment when technology kind of …takes over. Kurzweil didn’t come up with the…”
