Kevin Kelly always irritates me, because he has a tendency to be absolutely correct in his general arguments while making a host of specific supporting arguments that are weak or incorrect. What Technology Wants is no exception, although it's not quite as bad as Out Of Control in terms of fact checking. It's more enjoyable if you pretend that it isn't supposed to be convincing.
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Tsundoku Psychohazard rated Mindhacker: 4 stars
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated Stranger Than We Can Imagine: 5 stars
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
This is the collection of all five of the books in Douglas Adams' famous galaxy exploring trilogy. It follows Arthur …
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated Blindsight: 5 stars
Blindsight by Peter Watts (Firefall, #1)
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens …
Tsundoku Psychohazard reviewed What technology wants by Kevin Kelly
A fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing …
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3 stars
Kevin Kelly always irritates me, because he has a tendency to be absolutely correct in his general arguments while making a host of specific supporting arguments that are weak or incorrect. What Technology Wants is no exception, although it's not quite as bad as Out Of Control in terms of fact checking. It's more enjoyable if you pretend that it isn't supposed to be convincing.
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated Starfish (Rifters Trilogy): 5 stars
Starfish (Rifters Trilogy) by Peter Watts
Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts.
So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers …
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated Echopraxia: 4 stars
Echopraxia by Peter Watts (Firefall, #2)
A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings …
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated Secret cipher of the UFOnauts: 4 stars
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated The Men Who Stare at Goats: 4 stars
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted …
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated The Psychopath Test: 3 stars
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated New Lands: 4 stars
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated John Dies at the End: 5 stars
John Dies at the End by David Wong (John Dies at the End, #1)
John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel written by David Wong that was first published online as …
Tsundoku Psychohazard rated The Book of the Damned: 3 stars
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing …
