Perhaps I'm not the target audience for this book. Although I'm unsure which audience would be ok with it either. If you're someone who keeps an ear to the ground in science and tech news, nothing in this book is new to you. If that's the case you'll be cringing everytime the author tells you you've never heard of Qualcomm or Github or uses the term Supernova when he's talking about the cloud where he really just means the Internet.

Aslo, it seems like getting to the point is a bit difficult - the book could have been a third of the size and gave you all the same information. The information in it however is interesting of course. It does talk about many important factors of our modern life, but I don't see it adding to the conversation at all. It's fine to discuss common knowledge if you have an interesting take on it, but name dropping all the places you've been and people you've met just isn't that profound.