A review by alex_ellermann
Future Crimes by Marc Goodman
2.0
The problem with ‘Future Crimes’ is that anyone interested in reading it already knows everything it has to say.
The book pulls together a bunch of tales of high-tech crime to warn the reader, “Nothing is secure and everything is dangerous.” Problem is, any reader who who already skims Wired Magazine or the Science and Technology section in the paper already knows this stuff. This leads to me to wonder for whom this book was actually written.
Even you, yes you, the kind of person who reads a review of a book about books like these, already knows this stuff. You can safely move along to the next title.
The book pulls together a bunch of tales of high-tech crime to warn the reader, “Nothing is secure and everything is dangerous.” Problem is, any reader who who already skims Wired Magazine or the Science and Technology section in the paper already knows this stuff. This leads to me to wonder for whom this book was actually written.
Even you, yes you, the kind of person who reads a review of a book about books like these, already knows this stuff. You can safely move along to the next title.