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Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
Who Owns the Future?
by Jaron Lanier
read in May, 2013
The rise of information technology, big data, and what Lanier calls "siren servers" has developed into an economic structure where value goes one way- from the consumer to the business that holds the siren server. It is no wonder that the public refu...more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Reviewer Nebuchadnezzar labeled this neuro-utilitarianism, which about sums it up. The author flings aside any criticism with the idea that he is providing "answers in principle" even if they don't work as "answers in practice." Because an unusable e...more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
" Why am I sitting here reviewing another Sam Harris book? People keep telling me that I have to have to have to read them, and they seem to generally be what's called in military jargon "target-rich environments."

Harris sets out to hunt two of his... " Read more of this review »
Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
There seems to be a trend of authors forgetting all ethics regarding citations and publishers failing to call them on it. When you quote someone, you name them- stripping off the names of people you don't like as this author does at the beginning of...more
John Donne by John Stubbs
Fantastic biography of a man who changed so much over the course of his life. No thesis statement of a life is ever accurate, but if a post-hoc unifying myth can be created it surely makes biography easier. Nothing like that is available in this case...more
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
Montaigne would have hated this book--a derivative commentary--but at the pace of our world how else can we live? It is not for us to hole up in a tower and read, and for only 1,000 books to be a grand library.

Before reading the book I had a vague id...more
China Road by Rob Gifford
Great book, readable and dense with information. Started reading for school and abandoned. Hopefully will have time to finish at some point in the future.
No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleaveland
I grew up in a cattle ranching community in California with it's own people and own language. Cable TV put an end to that. Inside, nothing is special and unique, but outside people still have the surprise that such a thing exists. The author writes w...more
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