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Rony Abovitz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This is me - friend of people, animals, and robots. Founder & CEO, SynthBee. Founder & CEO, Sun and Thunder. Founder, Magic Leap. Founder, MAKO Surgical.

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Book Cover for: Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe

Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe
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I’m re-reading “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe. It is a great book for anyone who likes to push on the envelope and can muster the courage to go to new places (the original film is a classic - but the book is a must).

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Book Cover for: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?, Graham Allison

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

Graham Allison
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@SenRickScott “In Destined for War, the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains why Thucydides's Trap is the best lens for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century”

Paperback, 2018

$25.99Member price:$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Marooned in Realtime, Vernor Vinge

Marooned in Realtime

Vernor Vinge
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"Vernor Vinge introduced the term Technological Singularity in his science fiction novel Marooned in Realtime (1986) and later developed the concept in his essay the Coming Technological Singularity (1993)" https://t.co/PyajejzEi7

Paperback, 2004

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery, Rex Ambler

The Quaker Way: A Rediscovery

Rex Ambler
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@chrisfralic "The answer suggested by Rex Ambler’s lovely book “The Quaker Way” is silence. In a typical Quaker meeting, Ambler writes, community members “sit in silence together for an hour or so, standing up to speak only if they are led to do so, and then only to share some insight..."

Paperback, 2013

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book