Category: Movie and Book Reviews

Movie and book reviews.

Book – ***** Sapiens (2016)

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Masterpiece of historical philosophy. Yuval Harari has put together a consistent model of the development of human society identifying businesses, nations, and religions as convenient fictions that humans indulge in to allow themselves to cooperate in large numbers delivering first the Agricultural Revolution, then the Industrial Revolution, and finally the…

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Book – ****+ Elon Musk (2015)

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Non-fiction biography of Elon Musk’s obsessions and his rise to become a technological superpower. Space flight, electric vehicles, and underground tunneling are not science fiction, but practical daily pursuits to a driven man who reminds me of Ayne Rand’s Howard Roark, unafraid to challenge both bureaucracy and conventional wisdom at…

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