Worldview

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The authors of this 2012 book received the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday. Today, I read a review summarizing their work. Their logic about an ever-changing world tracks with real-time nation-changes that occurred after its publication. The authors supplied unarguable data to support their observations, conclusions, and theories.

My learning this morning while reviewing felt awesome. I decided to order the book.

This was a big seller in its early years. Finding it now is difficult, especially in hardcover, which I wanted. However, the book’s win and renewed attention will soon bring reprints.

How I’ve changed! Unlike my tendency to focus on the situational while I grew up, today’s wide-world affairs are more fascinating to me. My views have become less on the here and now and more on the there and beyond.

Surely, technology is altering my views and will continue to do so. It produces constant (and ever more rapidly) new information. Nowadays, AI can reinforce information and enable rapid data checking.

We’re experiencing the impact of so much information in real time. This election cycle is proving rapid beyond belief. Maybe we will witness an unconflicted transition of power, which may diminish our anxieties.

Dear Friends: Blah, blah; maybe this book will help me grasp and hold. Diana