Caitlin_D reviewed this a couple weeks ago, and I thought it sounded interesting so I borrowed her copy. It definitely was — contains a lot of fascinating (and sometimes scary) facts about how our society is changing when it comes to learning and retaining information. Poundstone spills out a lot of information here, but most of it’s pretty entertaining. He talks about polls he’s conducted or cited for the book — what people know, and in staggering numbers, what people don’t. I had fun reading through the […]
“Nietsche is Less Famous than Khloe Kardashian”
The one thing you can’t Google is what you ought to be looking up. William Poundstone is to modern knowledge as Aziz Ansari is to modern romance. That’s the best way I can describe this book. Head in the Cloud is an interesting look at how knowledge correlates with other aspects of the modern person’s life; it’s full of charts and graphs, it’s highly quotable and the author has a sense of humor. Scientists believe that early humans hunted dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus and […]