Review: Love the concept not so much the execution
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2012
This book has a lot going for it, but every once in awhile..the author throws something in there that is -completely- out of place. A random conclusion the main character is supposedly making about the future. The example that's most prevalent in my mind is that books are going to go extinct to be replaced by earbuds that read everything to us.Now, I'm no expert on how technologies are going to grow with time, but this just seems absurd. Reading is always going to be faster than hearing. There are many people who have an affinity for learning in one form or the other, some have to hear it to learn it, others need to read it to learn it. Neither will go extinct in the future even if we can upload things directly to our brain, reading will still be useful.Anyways, after I got over all that I still liked the book. Hopefully the author avoids similar immersion breaking future theories in the next book.