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Showing posts with label Books History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books History. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025).

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Several years ago, I read and reviewed an excellent book from 2016 about Silicon Valley and particularly Facebook called Chaos Monkeys: Insi...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology (2022). Chris Miller.

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I was intrigued this morning to read an article about a growing problem in the latest iterations of new generative AI products. This probl...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Book Review: Abundance (2025). Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson.

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I have long been an admirer of Ezra Klein, his writing and his New York Times podcast The Ezra Klein Show . In my opinion, he is one of the ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Book Review: The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power and Deception on the Eve of World War I (2023). Douglas Brunt.

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During the past year, I've read a number of excellent books that seemed to resonate as part of the backstory to some of the most urgent ...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War. Erik Larson (2024).

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In our fraught era of social and political polarization, we’ve become accustomed to hearing from pundits about how “there’s no precedent for...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Book Review: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration and Discovery at the Dawn of AI. Dr. Fei-Fei Li (2023).

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This week, with all the sensational news of corporate upheaval and intrigue at OpenAI, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) company in...