Yuval Harari outlines the trends and pressures that are rapidly replacing human control of evolving society and placing its future in the hands of algorithymic fictions we’ve created to drive toward questionable goals. Without even the emergence of the Singularity, we are relinquishing our choices to computer systems driving us…
Terrific history of Freddy Mercury and Queen with Oscar-winning performance by Rami Malek. The sound in the film’s songs surpassed Celine Dione’s live performance that I just saw live – hence sound editing and mixing Oscars.
Rebel Wilson pulls of the challenging premise of a heavyset woman architect trapped in as the star of a romantic comedy.
Another compelling book by Naomi Novik, but not the sequel to Uprootedthat I thought it was. Naomi has a gift for character that turns her story of moneylenders into a major work of magical fantasy.
Another Darby Holland crime novel by Jeff Johnson. In the same setting as Luck Supreme, Darby avoids a deadly nemesis from his past, while struggling to adjust to the imminent wedding and departure of Delia.
Terrible selection of depressing child-aggression and endangerment plots.
Cixin Liu story of Earth, threatened with destruction, beginning an interstellar journey to save humanity that’s burrowed into the mantle of the planet to survive.
Nice origin story for Captain Mar-Vell, an alien upgraded human woman returned to earth to prevent dangerous new technology being acquired.
Well-done animated post alien-invasion sci-fi where android bots battle for the floating-city masters who control them.
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…