Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-08-24
Books mentioned on Who Owns The Internet & How It Owns Us - James Ball - #213
James Ball is a writer, journalist & Pulitzer Prize winner. The internet is more than the website you browse...
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Irresistible
Irresistible by Adam Alter is a non-fiction book exploring behavioral addiction, screen time, and the technological mechanisms designed to keep users hooked on their devices and applications.
Recommended“it's an incredibly common thing if you talk about people who were sort of involved in the early days of the internet or in building some of this or you know whether you see them in in adam also it's very good book actually or um you know to the one side it's called is irresistible”
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Superintelligence
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom is an influential examination of the potential risks and pathways associated with the emergence of artificial general intelligence surpassing human cognitive capabilities.
Recommended“and this is the fear if anyone who's read super intelligence by nick bostrom which is an unbelievable book about the take off of artificial intelligence”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The System
“and in the book i kind of liken it to when we got industrialization in factories in the end it's made us better off”
Own book The System
“so the system who owns the internet and how it owns us will be out when this podcast drops so it will be linked in the show notes below audible version stuff like that uh there is an audible version coming out the same day uh narrated by me i'm afraid”