read future science books this week an optimists tour of the future by mark stevenson bit of a kurzweil tour looking at genomes, synthetic biology carbon neutrality bionics and other things not happening in the future
electrifed sheep by alex boese i had previuously read his elephants on acid and more of the same eccentrics in science good chapter on humanizing apes and the experiments since victorian times to train monkey butlers but now we try to learn their language rather than in the past try to teach chimps to speak english with the rise of robot machines the idea of monkey servants declined
i say carry on perfecting both and let them fight it out!!
peter j hamilton dreaming void part two of the trilogy librairies often only stock the middle book of a trilogy as usual with hamiltons work it only gets started after page 400 full of world building, multiple story threads voyages to the far edge of the galaxy isolated communities and alien enemy getting there eventually not as good as judas unchained epic rather than interesting
pathfinders the history of arabic science a tale of translation from greek to arabic, arabic to latin and what peace and patronage can do to aid intellectual pursuits the west had the dark age science it needed at the time
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