What is the book that changed your life?
Has there ever been a single book that greatly affected the way you've lived from then on? How so?
8 years ago by Konijn
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Has there ever been a single book that greatly affected the way you've lived from then on? How so?
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I'm sure I can recall more, but the one that I remember fondly was the singularity is near. When I first read it in '07 it made me think about how future technology will positively effect our lives and how technology is advancing at a pace that we mostly fail to realize how quickly change will happen as we progress down the exponential. I guess I look at things differently now, and have this optimism about technology that used to terrify me every time I thought about it.
Edit: BTW, you didn't mention yours, would love to hear your story too :)
Perhaps I should make a read of that. I have a more pessimistic view of future technology, specifically that machines will further replace areas of human employment. I could only seeing it as further dividing the haves and the have-nots.
It's a really good read, highly recommend it. Sure there will be problems we must resolve in the future but we always figure them out.
This is only minor, but Haruki Murakami has had me rethink classical music. Before then I had never really enjoyed classical music; I'd always thought it was what old people or weird homeschooled children were into. It was interesting the first few times that Murakami mentioned classical musicians and after awhile I decided to actually listen to the mentioned pieces while listening to his books. I haven't thrown out my old collection of rock and rap and replaced it with classical music, but I have found that I enjoy solo violin and solo guitar pieces and have incorporated a few into my music library.
I could also say that I found a biography on Disraeli to be quite inspiring. Its basically the story of a British Jew rising up to become the British Prime Minister in the Victorian era. It gives me the feeling that anyone has the power to do anything as long as they are ambitious.