A fitting finale to the Clifton Chronicles. The entire series gives an excellent perspective of the changing order of the world in terms of society’s basic characteristics – its behavior, consumption, worldview. This book is vintage Archer – good twists, and humaneness without over-dramatisation.
Melanie Swan As bitcoin and its ilk start becoming mainstream, I think the book would serve as a good primer for those who would like to learn about the underlying technology – blockchain. It also provides a catalog of existing projects across diverse domains. Without doing a lot of technical deep diving, it not only […]
Rachel Joyce The book that I read just prior to this one was “Who’s in charge? Free Will & the Science of the Brain”. The author of that book summed it all up in the end when he said that beyond the machinations of the body and the brain that science has, or has the […]
Michael S. Gazzaniga Our notion of the mind is a single “me” that consciously acts and reacts on/to stimuli. But a more accurate description would be several modules that work in tandem to define and dictate what we could call the mind/consciousness. A lot of this mind’s activities is dictated by factors that have been […]
Scott Hutchins As a character in the book asks, “What is love?” He proceeds to provide at least three alternatives to his own question – a biochemical emergent property of evolution? A social construct? Or just acquisition and deal making involving assets two people have? In ‘A Working Theory of Love’, Scott Hutchins takes a […]