Come, enrich my knowledge ｜ Bill Gates favorite book list first annual exposure
Every year-end or holiday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates Bill Gates will continue their "book selection" in the traditional personal social media platforms, recommended books of the year list of books he had in mind for everyone.
Not long ago, Bill Gates once again to share with you the five books, compared with previous years of books, five book clear "Technology sense of" full, contains two great science fiction, and discuss the future development of technology books let us work together to preview it!
Klara and the Sun
– Kazuo Ishiguro
This is caused by
The Nobel Prize in Literature
Winner Kazuo Ishiguro newly published science fiction story takes place in a dystopian future,
It tells the story of the friendship between the generated artificial intelligence robot Clara with a sick little girl.
Gates Book Review – "
Power is not evil robot
Instead, they can serve as companions to accompany people. This book got me thinking, has a super intelligent robot lives will be like – we had them as a technology, or
More important things
. "
Project Hail Mary
– Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary from the "Mission to Mars" The Marsian author Andy Weir (Andy Weir) hand, and "Mission to Mars" This book also appeared in the 2020 Bill Gates
Summer reading list
superior. It tells the story of a high school science teacher awoke to find himself in another galaxy,
Also take up the task of lifting the earth crisis.
Gates Book Review – "The story is about how he uses science and engineering to
save the world
. This book is very interesting, I’ll read it all weekend. "
Hamnet
– Maggie O’Farrell
This year, Bill Gates is recommended only a single book
Historical novel
The author wrote it with a fictional way how sad tear a family, explain how Shakespeare was writing his sorrow into power.
Gates Book Review – "If you’re a fan of Shakespeare, you’ll love this touching novel,
It tells the story of Shakespeare’s personal life affect the creation of one of his most famous plays.
"
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Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
– Jeff Hawkins
From technology entrepreneurs Hawkins (Jeff Hawkins) this book
More superficial
Way to introduce the sophisticated mode of operation of the human cerebral cortex,
More imagination and provides clues for the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Gates Book Review – "Hawkins identity may be best known for co-inventor of the PalmPilot, but he spent a few years time to study
Neuroscience and machine learning
The link between this book is the best introduction to his thought. "
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
– Walter Isaacson
It was awarded in 2020
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jennifer Doudna biography of the story,
She was "God scalpel said," the CRISPR gene editing technology has attracted attention.
Gates Book Review – "CRISPR gene editing system over the past decade
Coolest, perhaps most importantly,
One scientific breakthroughs. This book is about the Nobel laureate biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues is how to find it.
Author Isaacson nicely highlights the most important ethical issues in genetic editing.
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