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Short reflections, and observations on current affairs, geopolitics, technology, history & philosophy of science, and literature.
📘 Book Review: Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor
Mayor’s Gods and Robots is a blistering reminder that our obsession with artificial intelligence, automation, and bioengineering is not the product of a rational age—but the reawakening of a mythical one.
📘 Book Review "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology" by Neil Postman
Published in 1992 — the same year as Appleyard’s Understanding the Present — Technopoly is its American cousin. Where Appleyard exposed science as a new metaphysics, Postman maps how technology became the dominant religion of the modern West.
📘 Book Review: Understanding the Present by Bryan Appleyard
In Understanding the Present, Bryan Appleyard exposes what few in mainstream discourse have had the courage to admit: that science, once framed as the antidote to superstition, has quietly become a new kind of orthodoxy.
Where Dreams Go to Die
The problem with all of this—the Stoic resolve, the self-help hustle culture, the pseudo-Buddhist detachment fetishised by the tech elite—is that it assumes emotions are the enemy
"To understand the future, we must first understand the ideas that made the present possible."