Today, is my birthday, my 63rd birthday. The second of a three post series.
My youngest daughter gave the following birthday present:
Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hesserus (2022; editors). Knowledge and information: The Potential and Peril of Human Intelligence, Stolpe Publishing.
As a book for our times it is a brilliant read, and it is what I have exactly been writing in my publications in the scoping of Brisbane-Queensland-Australia. From the contributors, I am familiar with the work of Peter Burke.
Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hessérus asks the correct and critical questions for our times, and this is seen in the reviews since publication at 2022:
- From Good Reading: What is the arts and sciences debate on the history of information exchange in the era of surveillance capitalism?
- From Readings: How should we understand the growing tension between a cognitive elite and those excluded from public discourse and decision-making?
- From Thames & Hudson Australia & New Zealand: Will our information society turn out to be an era of enlightenment or are we entering a new dark age for knowledge?
I am very much looking forward to giving the book a full reading, and when completed to come back harder against the idiot decision-makers who have not employed or contracted me.
Kind regards…
Neville (dad) and daughter Marguerite at home. A pictures of my daughters’ mother is in the background.
Neville Buch
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