Jared Hansen
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27,233
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23,610
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,442
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun But With A Couple O' Caveats--
- By Gillian on 02-22-17
- Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- By: Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
More about what today than tomorrow
Reviewed: 05-17-19
A worthy sequel to Sapiens (which was deeper, more important, and should certainly be read first - in part so you can skim the early chapters here that largely rehash parts of it). Overall it left me a little cold though; the "dataism" futurology isn't as convincing as what you get from the Bostrom / Yudkowsky / caution sect, and not quite as miraculously weird as something like Age of Em. Indeed, it seemed more like a map of the present then a glimpse into tomorrow, for the most part.
Still: overall a useful contribution to framing the way we think about the world and our place in it.
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Big Business
- A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
- By: Tyler Cowen
- Narrated by: Steve Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and best-selling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book poorly read
- By Alan on 10-01-19
- Big Business
- A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
- By: Tyler Cowen
- Narrated by: Steve Edwards
Does what it says on the tin
Reviewed: 05-12-19
Right in general and almost all particulars, but feels a little unnecessary. if you're reading books by Tyler Cowen you probably already know most of this anyway so there aren't any surprises. This is itself a demonstration of one of the book's main points (that corporations - or in this case, an individual with a personal brand sufficiently recognizable that he may as well be one) mostly tend to do whatever it is the customer hired them to do.
Five stars for Striking a Blow for Truth And Justice; -1 for being somewhat redundant.
(I still enjoyed it, as one enjoys all cheering for one's own side. And I'll definitely still buy Tyler's next book, proving yet another of the book's points in the process.)
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