Hello World is neither one of those 'machines will make you happy' pieces of tech-guru propaganda, nor is it an overly pessimistic diatribe about how the robots are just waiting for their chance to enslave humanity. Fry is not ideological about the digital world, which makes for a much more enlightening book. This solid grounding - in facts, statistics, provable and measurable phenomena - ensures that she takes an admirably balanced approach to her subject.
Subtitled 'How to be Human in the Age of the Machine', Hannah Fry's book explores algorithms and how they have radically altered human society - sometimes for the good, sometimes not so good.Īs well as being a popular TED talker, broadcaster, podcaster, public speaker and author, Fry's day job is as a professor in "the mathematics of cities" at University College London, where she "uses mathematical models to study patterns in human behaviour".
This seeming contradiction lies at the heart of Hello World. As individuals, though, we're often uneasy about technological change - especially the speed at which it happens - even if we're not always entirely conscious of this unease. As a collective, we generally embrace it and appreciate its value, how it makes our lives longer and safer and better. Now we need to take our kids’ education back.Since probably the dawn of civilisation, people have had an ambiguous relationship with technology. I wrote the book because in the wake of what we’ve seen with COVID and COVID lockdowns exposing so much of the garbage that’s now being taught to our kids, in the wake of what we saw with the backlash in Virginia, with the Youngkin race and now what we’re seeing with Disney and their woke agenda exposed. Michael Waltz (R-Fla), is the last in a series of conservative children’s books put out by Brave books that seeks to “t each foundational conservative values by dispelling the progressive agenda aimed at teaching our kids all the wrong lessons.” When did the recognition of weakness become a conservative value? How does a conservative have any claim to caring about the greater good when a core value of the contemporary American right seems to be panicking at the thought of wearing a mask?
Does the following really sound like contemporary American conservatism to you?ĭawn of the Brave, which is aimed at children age 6 to 10, helps readers recognize that everyone has strengths and weakness, but teamwork allows people to come together for the greater good.
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