I’ve recently come back up for air (so to speak).
I’ve spent the last year in pandemic world trying to enable one of the world’s largest used car sales companies to have better experiences and more efficient ways to buy and sell cars online – without leaving the comfort of your “home”.
In some ways, I might be tempted to think that I am doing something really cutting edge.. which is why I feel like I have just come up for air.
I just finished a pretty amazing book called Sapiens – https://amzn.to/3jGq2bV.
Here are my thoughts:
This book is meta! It is a story of myths and imagined realities used to frame up the story of myths and imagined realities all centered around this thing we called human experience.
There are places in the book that you will find the author speaking authoritatively on ideas that he feels are universal, yet they fall short of accuracy and authenticity – but that’s the brilliance of the book – like a dream within a dream, the book did such an amazing job at stretching the imagination both into the past and towards the future to frame a shared vision on the relevance of culture and society.
I could not put it down.
Jediah Logiodice
I followed up by reading A Crack In Creation – https://amzn.to/3ArJz6b.
Here are my thoughts:
Amazing story of how humans discovered how to reprogram the code that makes up their physical bodies – and the possibilities of amazing wonders or emerging horrors are limitless.
I can almost imagine, that some years from now, the first sentient androids are going to be referencing this book as the dawn of the intelligence explosion Bostrom refers to as “Superintelligence”.
There is no going back now – as Collins would say,, let the hunger games begin.
Jediah Logiodice
But, that’s not all… we now have flying cars: https://youtu.be/a2tDOYkFCYo, and autonomous physical in-store shopping experiences: https://youtu.be/FynpkeS7RUM, and containerized housing: https://youtu.be/qVV6CyGJgZo, and artificial intelligence running buildings as a super organism: https://youtu.be/ssZ_8cqfBlE.
I just picked up Homo Deus: https://amzn.to/2UToQaT.
It is incredible to think about how far we have come, as a species, in such a short period of time; I am really excited, but slightly reticent to see how deep this rabbit hole goes.