As I read this book I noticed that there was a wide disparity between the number of pages and the overall presence of words, given a book of this size. Yet even though the book lacked a high word count what was included in the text was powerful in its own right carrying the meaning through the book. I found it interesting that the authors chose not to be bound by a single format style as they proceed throughout the book. The text was rotated on some pages and even backwards on a few causing the reader to have to manipulate the physical book to be able to understand the entity of it. Also, the inclusion of many pictures resulted in the ability of the reader to not only read what was on the page but to associate it with the images alongside it, thus altering the impact of the text that would’ve been drawn by the reader if the text had stood alone. An aspect that I didn’t agree with that came up in the book is the ability of humans to create something smarter than us, due to the fact that that would require the programing of something of which the programmer couldn’t comprehend themselves. As a result of the text I cannot help but wonder the timeframe of the major occurrences for which it played out, as these are seemingly far away outcome the book presents them as an action which will take place in the very near future. Coupled with that however I run into the question of what is considered to be near in the future as the scope of relative time being manipulated through technology was also a topic addressed within this book. (290)
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