Nothing here was especially new to me, but that's fine - I'm always on the lookout for a good succinct relatively accessible book to use in class and/or book clubs, and this is a strong candidate. It's well written -- glib and straightforward, and yet with enough hope & inspiration for a better version of our current technoshitworld that it's pretty inspirational. I grabbed a bunch out of the notes section to track down later and am looking forward to reading several of the cited works soon. PS: there's a chapter called "Pretty Rate Machine" which is just Italian chef finger kiss