If you get nothing else from those books (or this review of them) it needs to be this point: whether in five years or fifty, machines will replace professional, white collar, and blue collar workers
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Recommendation Triptych: America in the 1920s
This time I’ve got three books that I recommend reading in a specific order, from broad-spectrum overview to a discrete, specific event that happened in the summer of 1927. I think reading these books in that order, one after another, gives a very nuanced perspective...
Recommendation Triptych: Natural Resources and Human Civilization
So here is an interesting trifecta long-read series for your edutainment: 1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005) 2. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore (2006) 3....
{196} The soul of Star Wars is not a single note
Fans of Rogue One say that it has brought Star Wars back to the feel of the original trilogy, that it has saved the soul of the franchise. Fans of The Force Awakens say that it has brought Star Wars back to the feel of the original trilogy, that it has saved the soul...