Kim Dae Hong Dae Hong itibaren Rochegude, Fransa
This book has a lot of interesting foresight of the next fifty years of our future, although this book was written roughly ten years ago, so foresight of the next forty years of our future. I especially like the idea that all people can easily afford to have their genome charted so that we will all know our proclivity towards certain diseases. What else was interesting was one essayist imagined we would have the Internet implanted into our brains. There are a few downsides I found in this book. 1) It is ten years old, so there are certain predictions that proved not the case. One person said he did not see e-books taking off replacing books, but lately we have seen many many bookstores closing, so I feel like they are, especially with the advent of the Ipad, which this book certainly could not predict. 2) There are one or two essays that are dreadfully dull. The essayists go on and on about different types of synthetic proteins, which can be a rather interesting topic for some, but the amount of scientific knowledge you need to understand the essay is too high to actually enjoy what he/she is saying. 3) I was surprised at the number of essays that do not actually explain what they feel like the next fifty years of our future will look like. They actually spend the majority of the essay explaining how we could not possibly know what is in store for us. Just as fifty years prior we could not foresee the advent of the Internet, we cannot see what will lie fifty years from now. I thought that was complete hooey, and an escape from the purpose of the book. I think some of the essayists simply wanted to try to be unique and offer a variant perspective by instead of talking about the next fifty years, going on about the last fifty years, and the last fifty years before. While this was somewhat interesting, it was also not the purpose of the book. All in all, it was a decent read. I actually wished instead of 25 short essays, it could have been maybe 10 longer essays. I figure that some people would prefer the former as they are short and thus more easily digested; however, I would prefer longer essays because I feel that the short essays cannot go into as much depth, and a lot of the authors are incredibly interesting.