When you’re reading, you have to be careful that you really are concentrating, particularly if it’s a nonfiction book, are you taking the new knowledge and sort of attaching [it] to knowledge you have?
This time, though, I decided to try something different. Rather than limit myself to things I’ve read over the previous twelve months, I instead picked books regardless of when I finished them.
Paul Allen and I fell in love with Heinlein when we were just kids, and this book is still one of my favorite sci-fi novels of all time. It tells the story of a young man who returns to Earth after growing up on Mars and starts a new religion. I think the best science fiction pushes your thinking about what’s possible in the future, and Heinlein managed to predict the rise of hippie culture years before it emerged.
I can’t read enough about Abraham Lincoln, and this is one of the best books on the subject. It feels especially relevant now when our country is once again facing violent insurrection, difficult questions about race, and deep ideological divides. Goodwin is one of America’s best biographers, and Team of Rivals is arguably her masterpiece.
This book from 1974 is a must-read for anyone who plays tennis, but I think even people who have never played will get something out of it. Gallwey argues that your state of mind is just as important—if not more important—than your physical fitness. He gives excellent advice about how to move on constructively from mistakes, which I’ve tried to follow both on and off the court over the years.
The history of chemistry is filled with quirky characters like Dimitri Mendeleyev, the Russian scientist who first proposed the periodic table after it allegedly came to him in a dream. Strathern’s book traces that history all the way back to its origins in ancient Greece. It’s a fascinating look at how science develops and how human curiosity has evolved over the millennia.
I’m glad that I followed my older daughter’s recommendation and read this novel. It cleverly uses a single idea—what if all the women in the world suddenly gained the power to produce deadly electric shocks from their bodies?—to explore gender roles and gender equality. Reading The Power, I gained a stronger and more visceral sense of the abuse and injustice many women experience today. And I expanded my appreciation for the people who work on these issues in the U.S. and around the world.
人工知能ほどSF作家の想像力をかきたてる題材はないでしょう。真のAIを作るには何が必要なのか学ぶことに興味があるなら、本書は魅力的な理論を提供してくれます。ホーキンスはパームパイロットの共同発明者として最もよく知られていますが、神経科学と機械学習のつながりについて何十年も考えてきており、彼の考え方を知る上で本書ほど優れた入門書はないでしょう。 Few subjects have captured the imaginations of science fiction writers like artificial intelligence. If you’re interested in learning more about what it might take to create a true AI, this book offers a fascinating theory. Hawkins may be best known as the co-inventor of the PalmPilot, but he’s spent decades thinking about the connections between neuroscience and machine learning, and there’s no better introduction to his thinking than this book.
私は良いロボットの物語が好きです。病気の少女に「人工的な友人」をもたらすイシグロの小説も例外ではありません。ディストピアの未来が舞台となっていますが、ロボットは悪の権化とはされていません。むしろ、人と付き合うための仲間としての役割を担っています。この本は、超知的なロボットとの生活がどのようなものなのか、そして、この種の機械をテクノロジーの一部として扱うのかそれ以上のものとして扱うのかについて、私に考えさせるものでした。 I love a good robot story, and Ishiguro’s novel about an “artificial friend” to a sick young girl is no exception. Although it takes place in a dystopian future, the robots aren’t a force for evil. Instead, they serve as companions to keep people company. This book made me think about what life with super intelligent robots might look like—and whether we’ll treat these kinds of machines as pieces of technology or as something more.
シェイクスピアのファンなら、彼の私生活が最も有名な戯曲のひとつを書くのにどう影響したかを描いたこの感動的な小説を気に入ることでしょう。オファレルは、私たちが知っている2つの事実をもとに、ストーリーを構築しています。彼の息子ハムネットが11歳で亡くなったこと、そしてその数年後にシェイクスピアが悲劇『ハムレット』を書いたことです。特に、彼の妻アンについては、ほとんど超自然的な人物として描かれていて、とても興味深く読みました。 If you’re a Shakespeare fan, you’ll love this moving novel about how his personal life might’ve influenced the writing of one of his most famous plays. O’Farrell has built her story on two facts we know to be true about “The Bard”: his son Hamnet died at the age of 11, and a couple years later, Shakespeare wrote a tragedy called Hamlet. I especially enjoyed reading about his wife, Anne, who is imagined here as an almost supernatural figure.
多くの人と同じように、私も『火星の人』で初めてウィアーの作品を知りました。彼の最新作は、高校の科学教師が、どうやってそこに来たのか全く覚えていないまま、別の星系で目を覚ますという荒唐無稽な物語です。この小説は、高校の科学教師が、自分がどうやってそこに来たのか記憶がないまま別の星系で目覚め、科学と工学を駆使してその場を救うという荒唐無稽な物語です。楽しい読み物で、私は週末に全部読み終えてしまいました。 Like most people, I was first introduced to Weir’s writing through The Martian. His latest novel is a wild tale about a high school science teacher who wakes up in a different star system with no memory of how he got there. The rest of the story is all about how he uses science and engineering to save the day. It’s a fun read, and I finished the whole thing in one weekend.
“Here are five books on a variety of subjects that I’d recommend as we wrap up 2020. I hope you find something that helps you—or the book lover in your life—finish the year on a good note.”
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