Alasdair Ekpenyong
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Black Buck
- By: Mateo Askaripour
- Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,223
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,073
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,068
An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A struggle to finish
- By jessica+josiah on 03-05-21
- Black Buck
- By: Mateo Askaripour
- Narrated by: Zeno Robinson
Amazing oral reading
Reviewed: 05-23-21
The narrator in the audiobook is amazing. Very good at reading AAVE with much gusto
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 225
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Story4 out of 5 stars 224
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Hope It's Not All True
- By John on 05-01-16
- The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- By: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrated by: John Lee
Attempt at sketching a history of the 21st century
Reviewed: 09-27-20
I came to this book personally out of my interest in the digital humanities. People who study DH may find it worthwhile to read this book. Likewise, people who read this book and like it may find it worthwhile to read about the digital humanities.
The Susskinds explain how economic and cultural history thus far has led to the current professional structure of Western society. They speculate that technological advances will ultimately challenge the sorts of exclusive claims to knowledge and expertise that the professions are based on. They imagine a new world where the professional economy as we know it no longer exists because computers will have taken responsibility for a significant number of tasks that humans now do.
The Susskinds offer guidance for how people can adapt and write themselves into this new, technology-intensive future. They call upon traditional economic ideas like the Tragedy of the Commons and Rawls’ veil of ignorance to explain how traditional reasoning strategies may be applicable to navigating or charting the human factor into tomorrow’s technological future.
They respond, throughout, to anticipated rebuttals to their arguments. For example, in response to the claim that artificial intelligence will not be able replicate human patterns of thinking, they say that it is a logical fallacy to believe that AI must replicate human cognition in order to be effective. The Susskinds urge us to imagine and accept the possibility that artificial intelligence is of a different order than human intelligence and that AI may be capable of arriving at the same end result as a human (or a better result) through an entirely different thought process than what the human may pursue.
This is a great read for anyone interested in thinking critically about the future.
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