Tag Archives: Robots

Book Review: The Future of Violence by Benjamin Wittes and Gabrielle Blum

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Tietsu

Look at the title of this book. The Future of Violence. War, war never changes, but violence? We are absolutely brilliant about coming up with ways to cause grievous harm to one another. What cool military and privatized inventions await … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #5)

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Tietsu

This book suffers in much the same way the fourth book does: it is slow. Walks when it needs to run, as if fighting against itself, fitfully roving towards a pay off like a damp-fused firework. King seems to try … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Tietsu

It took Walter Tevis 17 years from the published of his utterly sublime novel The Man Who Fell to Earth and the publication of his next novel Mockingbird. In that intervening time he had developed two relatively full-time jobs: professor … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Tietsu

You want to know how to get me to hate you? Tell me about how shitty science fiction is at predicting the future and then smugly espousing just how much more right you are than anyone else. At that point, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Enchanted Objects by David Rose

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Tietsu

  I’m only just now getting into this whole futurist thing. I’m not happy with the present so I’ve decided that I’m going to consume as many potential futures as I can and drive stoned and screaming into the one … Continue reading →

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