pnwreader started reading Collapse by Jared Diamond
Collapse by Jared Diamond
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies …
I'm reading this along with several other books (listed below) to think more about this idea of ideas and knowledge more as something that grows AND shrinks over time and not as a purely upward trend towards endless access and wisdom. Sort of idling wondering about what present or future losses on the scale of the Library of Alexandria would be like. How do we actually preserve information over long long periods of time?
Any suggestions for books within this topic are welcome!
- "Beyond the Known" by Andrew Rader, sort of a big history brief summary of human exploration.
- Jared Diamond's "Collapse" for potentially obvious reasons.
