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The seminar chapter “computing machines of the future” is an example of the seminars we all wish we could routinely attend.

I should learn to read the full cover and not just listed titles. I was anticipating one cohesive story and not an anthology of webcomics.

Not sure if it’s just this libby audiobook, but there’s been several times that sentences are repeated. The editing/proofing of this seems loose.

Idk about this schizophrenic pseudoscience at the beginning but hopefully the biography picks up after the prologue

The James Patterson-esque writing doesn’t hit like it did years ago with The Hot Zone. Maybe it’s me. Maybe the other book was a better narrative. Maybe I was just less informed then. These books may just be better for people that haven’t worked in medical labs and seen how sloppy some professionals can be. Post-COVID is also different. Ignorance is knowingly powerful.

You really need to get to the last chapter of part 1 for any hope that the writing will change and that it really is a stylistic choice.

The author addresses criticism that they give too much emphasis on the scientific influence of individual thinkers and defends it by saying that although many things contributed to the painting of the Sistine chapel it was still Michelangelo that painted it.
Weird footnote. Science writing does focus too entirely on the celebrity of things, but I’ve yet to find a good alternative of that method.