Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-07-15
Chris Williamson & Rob Reid: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #346
How To Avoid Destroying Humanity - Rob Reid - #346
Rob Reid is an entrepreneur, podcaster and an author. The last 15 months have been a terrifying taster of just what a global crisis is like, except it wasn't lethal enough to be a threat to our long term survival - but just because this one wasn't, doesn't mean that more deadly existential risks aren't out there.
Rob Reid recommended Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and others, and discussed Our Final Hour by Martin Rees and 1984 by George Orwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Our Final Hour
Discussed“martin reese's book our final hour and that's what's called the united states and it's got the much more intelligent title in the uk of our final century”
Where to get it
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Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is a darkly satirical postmodern novel that explores themes of science, technology, religion, and human folly, notably featuring the fictional and apocalyptic substance ice-nine.
Recommended“very much like ice9 in cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut so cat's cradle is a brilliant novel that i'd recommend to anybody”
Where to get it
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance, historical denial, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“what changed all of that well a lot of things did but i think a very big thing that changed all that was the novel 1984 1984 was written in 1948”
Where to get it
