Nexus crux apex6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() A wealth of stuff to learn, but pay attention, otherwise things will go past you, as happened to me on this reading. ![]() Ideas that went through several phases and continually changed societies and opened up new possibilities and unintended consequences. Popular history of six innovations: Glass, cold (refrigeration), sound (recorded), clean (hygiene), time, light (artificial). How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (2014) by Steven Johnson. The first book (Nexus) provided the basic “science fictional” elements, here we see how these play out on the political scene, with its many actors with different motivations. Against a backdrop of geopolitics, drug policy, fear of the unknown, development policy, and human rights, transhumans, AI, and humans clash. Action-filled conclusion to Naam’s Nexus trilogy ( Nexus, Crux, Apex). ![]() (Warning: reviews are unpolished and quickly written.)Īpex: Nexus Arc Book 3 (2015) by Ramez Naam. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |