so-so(2021) Scharf offers some provocative ideas about the "dataome": all of the information that humans have encoded (and are encoding) into our environment, and which, considered as an entity, has curious properties -- and maybe apocalyptic consequences. I love the sense of wonder here, and am intrigued about possible research, but too many arguments seem to me to rely on fuzzy definitions, shaky metaphors, and false equivalencies.
"In this instant, a precious one-second span out of the four and a half billion years Earth has existed as a bejeweled sphere of complexity and dynamism, I am gripped by one puzzle only: Can those really be tears glistening in the eyes of the museum guide standing in front of me?"
In other words, I might as well settle in because for the next 300 pages, word economy is out the window.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Today's reading
I've always wondered what "time is relative" even means but never enough to look it up
And like thirty pages into this freaking book they just slap me in the face with the answer
I just-
Everything I've ever known is a lie!
Time is relative to your reference frame in the same way velocity is relative to your reference frame
Physics is nuts and I love it!
A look at the other four Novellas in the collection
#Entropy'sBedAtMidnight
"A father and his young daughter start their road trip on the highway out of Denver, when suddenly the humdrum accident statistics of the insurance companies take on a terrifying reality. Now, a pitched battle between love and laughter..and pain and death on the other side begins...desperate devotion to his child against the massed forces of chaos in the universe"
Spending a grey LA day working my way through Pinker‘s latest. #entropy
Since C.A. Higgins references the Laws of Thermodynamics in her novel, I keep thinking about the song, "The 2nd Law: Isolated System" by Muse. #ReadingMusic #GoodSong #SciFi #CAHiggins #Lightless #Entropy #ERMadLibs
