Philosophy major turned web developer - and eventually manager. I enjoy novels, science biographies, popular science, cyberpunk and much more.
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"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, …
When an extraterrestrial arrives on Earth, his first impressions of humans are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor …
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March …
For mig en næsten rystende fortælling om apati. Fortalt i Helle Helles fantastisk simple sprog, som på forunderlig vis formidler stemninger og følelser på en meget nærværende måde.
"An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In …
Get ready to change the way you think about economics.
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical …
"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now …
I really liked this cyber-punk style sci-fi novel for its female protagonist, and her female view. There aren't to many of those around in my feeds. I also liked the milieu, the tech ideas, and the action parts.
What I liked less was the progression of the novel. There are some jumps in time specially towards the end, that left me a bit confused, and had me feeling like something was left out.
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew …
I saw a a question here on Goodreads, where a potential reader asked, whether this book is still relevant. I would have to say it depends on where you are in your science reading "career". If you have already read Hawkings "A brief history of time", and/or Brysons "A Short History of Nearly Everyting", or other more recent popular schiece books about physics and astrophysics, there is a lot of stuff in this book you already know.
What I like about this book, is also what I think sets this book apart from the books mentioned above: It's very humanistic and empathic tone, and the way Sagan is able to relate the history of Homo Sapiens, and our foremost scientists to the Cosmos that is our place.
I would not hesitate to recommend this book as the first science history book, a budding teenage scientist should read.
This book must be the product of a huge number of research hours. The number of stories and anecdotes is truly impressive.
Still it did not truly capture my imagination, and I often lost my focus while reading. Hence only 3 stars
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, …
Vonneguts books seems to be an essential part of a American litterature. This is what prompted me to read one of his books, as I wanted to learn a bit more about this part of American culture. His books has also been extensively rewieved, so this review is mostly for the benefit of other people that are, as I am, starting to explore his works.
if you are looking for a predecessor to modern sci-fi and/or cyberpunk novels, this is not for you. To me this is a book about our inner lives.
This book is primarily a melancholic investigation of issues of chance, religion, mindlessnes and manipulation. My take on what is investigated, is primarily the meaninglessness of faith and life, and it is by no means a feel-good kind of book.
The book touches and resonates with my own thoughts on these subjects, and leaves me even more …
Vonneguts books seems to be an essential part of a American litterature. This is what prompted me to read one of his books, as I wanted to learn a bit more about this part of American culture. His books has also been extensively rewieved, so this review is mostly for the benefit of other people that are, as I am, starting to explore his works.
if you are looking for a predecessor to modern sci-fi and/or cyberpunk novels, this is not for you. To me this is a book about our inner lives.
This book is primarily a melancholic investigation of issues of chance, religion, mindlessnes and manipulation. My take on what is investigated, is primarily the meaninglessness of faith and life, and it is by no means a feel-good kind of book.
The book touches and resonates with my own thoughts on these subjects, and leaves me even more sure that, each and everyone of us has a personal obligation to be responsible for our own actions, and direct our hopes, trust and good will towards our fellow human beings, not towards some exclusive belief system that divides people into the right and the wrong people.
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it …
