Paris Marx Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@MenneckeOtto Jimmy Soni’s “The Founders,” but all it takes is a quick search. https://t.co/hk2c5Nwza3

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Got a laugh at this anecdote in @jms_wright’s “Robots Won’t Save Japan”: As the Pepper robot was being hyped in the UK and declared “the most popular care robot in Japan,” most Japanese companies had already terminated their leases and it was mainly a sushi restaurant greeter. https://t.co/0W5Xq7t2T6

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@ranimolla Looking for fiction or non-fiction? I love to recommend Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. I also read Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Lea Ypi’s Free earlier this year and really liked them.

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The Avatar comparisons to “Dances With Wolves” and “Ferngully” are so tired. I always feel people missed how he pulled from Ursula Le Guin, and this only backs it up for me. First movie was from “The Word for World is Forest”; feels like third is part of “Always Coming Home.” https://t.co/Q8PqGrnr4q

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I’m reading David Noble’s “Progress Without People” and having one of those great reading experiences where it feels like it’s connecting the threads of a lot of other knowledge I’ve built up over the years.

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I cited a tweet where I pulled the passage from Ashlee Vance’s book “Elon Musk.” He describes how Musk had a “hatred” for California’s high-speed rail system, hoped Hyperloop would cause legislators to rethink it, and that it would ultimately be canceled. https://t.co/vYwEoYAYrA

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A bit late to it, but finally reading (and enjoying!) @rushkoff’s ‘Survival of the Richest’. A great dissection of the mindset of tech and what it’s doing to our world. I still have another half to read though! https://t.co/klQSvZ8xtU

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@VassB I always felt Danielle Martin explained how we misunderstand health spending well in “Better Now”: governments gutted most other public spending so they could deliver tax cuts over decades, and that distorts perceptions of healthcare spending. https://t.co/gudlGOaJwO

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As the year was winding down, the positive attention heaped on longtermism after the release of William MacAskill’s “What We Owe the Future” started to turn. For @NewStatesman, I reviewed the book and why its ideas benefit tech billionaires. https://t.co/L2f6bCDwd0

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The Avatar comparisons to “Dances With Wolves” and “Ferngully” are so tired. I always feel people missed how he pulled from Ursula Le Guin, and this only backs it up for me. First movie was from “The Word for World is Forest”; feels like third is part of “Always Coming Home.” https://t.co/Q8PqGrnr4q