Ruminations on our relationship with technology
Recommended Reading on this site includes fiction and science-fiction stories that give valuable insights about our relationship with technology.
Select a book review or synopsis below that piques your interest in the genre of fiction or science fiction below.
Swift’s use of satire and science fiction to ask: Why invent that? As someone who enjoys reading both satire and science fiction, I absolutely love Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s Travels. Published in 1726, it soon became a famous—if not infamous—satire on modern European nations. What’s more, Gulliver’s Travels also became notable as what’s arguably the … Read more
Why gods of technology can’t replace gods of myth As a professional interested in technology, and as a bibliophile with a love for mythology, one piece of fiction I often recommend is Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods. Published right at the turn of the millennium (2001), American Gods was a wild success, selling millions of … Read more