A review by jaclynday
Future Crimes by Marc Goodman
4.0
This book is terrifying. For every paranoid person running around saying the Internet will eventually take us down, there’s a Marc Goodman—a smart, reasonable guy, by all accounts—saying, “Well, yeah. It probably will.” So now we have fringe crazies, yes, but we’ve also got this tangible evidence and research that the world we live in now can also destroy the modern conveniences and safety that we take for granted.
The “we almost nuked ourselves multiple times” nonfiction Command and Control by Eric Schlosser wasn’t as scary as this.
It’s almost impossible for us to wrap our minds around technology today, and though Goodman goes into things like robots and synthetic biology, he also keeps the book accessible. Identity theft, for example, features prominently. The potential hacking susceptibility of the smartphone is another topic he visits at length. The reason the book is so readable is because much of what he discusses could, or maybe even has, affected the average person. Future Crimes isn’t all cyber warfare on a massive scale. Goodman brings it close to home.
The “we almost nuked ourselves multiple times” nonfiction Command and Control by Eric Schlosser wasn’t as scary as this.
It’s almost impossible for us to wrap our minds around technology today, and though Goodman goes into things like robots and synthetic biology, he also keeps the book accessible. Identity theft, for example, features prominently. The potential hacking susceptibility of the smartphone is another topic he visits at length. The reason the book is so readable is because much of what he discusses could, or maybe even has, affected the average person. Future Crimes isn’t all cyber warfare on a massive scale. Goodman brings it close to home.