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Every book Jamie Metzl recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Jamie Metzl appears on, in one place — not just one.
Jamie Metzl’s most recommended books
- An Immense World by Ed Yong
- The Long Game by Rush Doshi
- The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
- Viral by Matt Ridley, Alina Chan
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Jamie Frederic Metzl is an American technology and healthcare futurist, a founder and Chair of the global social movement OneShared.World, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, a faculty member of NextMed Health, and a Singularity University expert. During podcast appearances, Metzl recommended several works of nonfiction and science, including A.J. Jacobs' humorous book The Year of Living Biblically and Ed Yong's An Immense World, which he highlighted for its descriptions of how different animals perceive reality through unique sensory mechanisms. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, he recommended Matt Ridley and Alina Chan's Viral as an excellent account of the origins of COVID-19 and Rush Doshi's The Long Game regarding international strategy. Additionally, Metzl discussed Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz to illustrate extremes of human behavior, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities to explore themes of alternate lives, and the underlying spirit of A.J. Jacobs' work in relation to tracing the origins of everyday things.
Books recommended by Jamie Metzl
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An Immense World
An Immense World by Ed Yong is a popular science book that explores how various non-human animals perceive reality through distinct sensory modalities and survival mechanisms.
Recommended“Ed Yong had a wonderful book called An Immense World where he describes all of these different animals, all of whom are relatives of ours, and they have just different ways of sensing the world.”
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The Long Game
The Long Game by Rush Doshi examines China's grand strategy and its clearly articulated goal to subvert the post-war international order.
Recommended“there's a great book called The Long game by Rush Doshi who's actually now working in the in the White House about this goal and and are pretty clearly articulated goal to subvert this the post-war International order”
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The Year of Living Biblically
The Year of Living Biblically by A.
Recommended“But A.J. also has a fantastic book uh called The Year of Living Biblically, which is actually really hilarious.”
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Hacking Darwin
Hacking Darwin by Jamie Metzl explores the rapid and revolutionary advancements in genetics, gene editing, and the future evolution of humankind.
Discussed“now with with hacking Darwin I'm doing the same thing is that that there is this all of this incredible complexity of the genetics revolution”
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Viral
Viral by Matt Ridley and Alina Chan is a detailed investigative non-fiction book exploring the scientific and geopolitical origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recommended“so there's this excellent book that people should read uh called viral the search for the origin of covid-19 Matt Ridley and Alina Chan”
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Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is a fantastical novel structured as a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, describing numerous imagined and magical cities across the Khan's empire.
Discussed“and it's there's a wonderful full book called Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and he even talks about a city as something like this where everybody you have your life but then you have all these alternate lives and every time you make any decision you're kind of and so but in this Invisible Cities there's a little string that”
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Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi is a harrowing autobiographical account of the author's imprisonment in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, detailing the profound degradation and resilience of the human spirit under unimaginable totalitarian cruelty.
Discussed“The Italian writer Primo Levi has a wonderful book a wonderful terrible book called Survival in Auschwitz, where he talks about being in Auschwitz, and you see these extremes of humanity.”
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Other mentions (21: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And this is one example in your and my last conversation, we talked about my last book Super Convergence, which was about the future of healthcare and the future of agriculture where we can work with AI to see our bodies differently and in a more systemic and systemic way that can help us cure cancers and live healthier and”
“what I call it's the title of the book super convergence super converging technology Technologies where every technology is embedded in every other”
“so I'll even go back the first time you and I spoke was um when around the time I think it was 2019 for the launch of my then book hacking Darwin”
“So in my last book, Hacking Darwin, I had a chapter called The End of Sex, which is exactly about this.”
“and so your listeners may know from from The Princess Bride you know that little swordsman's”
“and frankly that's what my last book hacking Darwin before that I'd written my two science fiction novels Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata”
“and frankly that's what my last book hacking Darwin before that I'd written my two science fiction novels Genesis Code and Eternal Sonata”
“in my in my book hacking Darwin I have a whole chapter on this which is called the arm race of the human race”
“I mean I live a big chunk of My Life um living in in the world of genetics and biotech and my book hacking Darwin is about the future of human genetic engineering”
“My most recent is Hacking Darwin, genetic engineering and the and the future of of humanity.”
“I would love I'll come back in might the paperback version of hacking garments coming out in April of next year and so I'd love to come back when that happens done and all right”
“The reason why i've i've written this this book hacking darwin is that if we approach genetically modified humans in the same way we approach genetically modified foods which is the scientists say hey we've got this”
“and now we're we're entering the era of genetically modified humans and there's that same level of uncomfortableness but what happened the reason why i've i've written this this book hacking darwin is that if we approach genetically modified humans in the same way we approach genetically modified foods which is the scientists say hey we've got this we're going”
“um when last year my book hacking darm was already in production in november when it was announced that these first genetically engineered babies had been born in china”
“um so you think we're probably like 50 years away from that being a reality”
“so so my wrote my one of my sci-fi novels genesis code was about this”
“and so that's the reason why i've written this book is i we have to get that this stuff is coming fast”
“um where i think we're just going to have these contact lenses”
“i wrote my my two most recent near-term sci-fi novels genesis code and eternal sonata”
“i wrote my my two most recent near-term sci-fi novels genesis code and eternal sonata”
“so sanjay gupta um had a wonderful quote that's actually on the cover of my book which is if you can read one book on the future of our species this is it”