Ethan Mollick's Book Recommendations

Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape

"Three fun books for perspective on human achievement: Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape lets you better see all of the built stuff around us The Knowledge & How to Invent Everything, both about how to build civilization from scratch, but also histories of tech"

The Knowledge

"Three fun books for perspective on human achievement: Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape lets you better see all of the built stuff around us The Knowledge & How to Invent Everything, both about how to build civilization from scratch, but also histories of tech"

How to Invent Everything

"Three fun books for perspective on human achievement: Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape lets you better see all of the built stuff around us The Knowledge & How to Invent Everything, both about how to build civilization from scratch, but also histories of tech"

Blindsight

by Watts

"Science fiction besides Terminator to read to consider different paths for the future of AI: Wattโ€™s Blindsight for dark musing on sentience & intelligence. (And two twists I canโ€™t give away) Becky Chambers: AI are people, too Bankโ€™s Culture: coexistence with other minds Others?"