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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape The Future (2009)

by John Brockman(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061899674 (ISBN13: 9780061899676)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: This particular book contains a bunch of artists and scientists doing a lot of lofty predicting. Not that I'm against high altitude thinking I guess I more concerned with the practical things. When will dinner be ready is what I'm hearing most not when will AI make it possible to solve the world's problems. Some things can be done but I wonder if some things should be done. Who exactly is going to carry out the practical aspects of advanced technology? Who are the boots on the ground?
review 2: I'm still somewhere in the first quarter and I'm not going to return to this book.Each time, I picked it up I read an essay or two, but somehow, I can't make myself read more of them. When buying, I've expected something more coherent, not a collection of short essays. B... moreut they're probably not even essays. Each "chapter" is only a few pages long, so they are very shallow and usually there's nothing to think about, no interesting arguments to support it, many of them does not try to view the problem from different perspectives. Overall, it was just boring and not worth my time. less

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