Best Tech Books of 2017
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2. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
3. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
4. The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
5. This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know
6. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
7. Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond
8. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
9. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies
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Critique is fine, but fulminating isn't. If you want to post here, please do better.
1. name-calling - Please explain. These are either self-described terms by adherents of these philosophies or prominent criticisms. Scientism is a criticism often applied by Philosophers to the likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Within the institutions pertaining to the industries related Science & Technology, there is a notion of progressive encroachment of said institutions over traditional domains.
Technocracy is a self-definition by it's adherents. Same with Feminism.
Post-Nihilism is a term that I added to describe the language of the reviews re: the books whose main thesis relates to feminism. My logic is that it paints a picture of feminism beyond the Nihilism of diversity statistics not being at a place where it "ought to be" despite large amounts of investments to "improve the situation".
"While the diversity statistics often show a grim image of women’s experience in technology and entrepreneurship, Geek Girl Rising paints a brighter picture of the women who are rallying to start companies, investing in each other, and pulling up those coming behind them."
-- Review of "Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech"
2. Unsubstantiveness - One can substantiate MIT Press as advancing the Philosophical position of Technocracy from these books that advocate for the same positions as the Technocratic philosophy. The Review of "The Water Will Come" states:
"It’s a call to action for coastal cities and states to undertake smart, dedicated, and sustained efforts to reinforce their shores. But it’s also an honest appraisal making clear that for many places, whether it’s ever an active policy decision or not, the only realistic option will be retreat."
All of these political solutions based on the predictive models of a few Scientists, or Experts in Technocratic terminology. There has been criticism over these models & of the politics of the creators of these models.
3. The reading list itself has an ideological position. The criticism against ideological positions is itself based on ideology & creates an ideological conflict, which makes it a contradiction.
Perhaps you mean "please don't address any issues about my ideologies"?
> If you want to post here, please do better.
One would think that is a bit snarky & not befit of a HN moderator, but thank you for the practice of addressing your criticisms anyways :-)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is an excellent start, but where's the other obvious ones:
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-science-technolo...
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
etc etc