by KimBoo York | Dec 24, 2017 | Book, Review
Books reviewed: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2006) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2014) The Economic Singularity: Artificial...
by KimBoo York | Mar 8, 2017 | Book, Review
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...
by KimBoo York | Feb 5, 2017 | Book, Review
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....
by KimBoo York | Jan 7, 2017 | Ponderings, Review
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...
