Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright
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“Among my five favorite books of all time. | My thinking has been very influenced by @robertwrighter's book NonZero, which is just as relevant today as it was in 1999. There IS a future in which digital media gives us a far better democratic society than we have today. But it may be hard to get from here to there. | Nonzero is my favorite book detailing the rise of PositiveSum thinking.”
Source →“Among my five favorite books of all time. | My thinking has been very influenced by @robertwrighter's book NonZero, which is just as relevant today as it was in 1999. There IS a future in which digital media gives us a far better democratic society than we have today. But it may be hard to get from here to there. | Nonzero is my favorite book detailing the rise of PositiveSum thinking.”
Source →“Among my five favorite books of all time. | My thinking has been very influenced by @robertwrighter's book NonZero, which is just as relevant today as it was in 1999. There IS a future in which digital media gives us a far better democratic society than we have today. But it may be hard to get from here to there. | Nonzero is my favorite book detailing the rise of PositiveSum thinking.”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Ev Williams and Reid Hoffman
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Philosophy, and Psychology.
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever ...
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“Among my five favorite books of all time. | My thinking has been very influenced by @robertwrighter's book NonZero, which is just as relevant today as it was in 1999. There IS a future in which digital media gives us a far better democratic society than we have today. But it may be hard to get from here to there. | Nonzero is my favorite book detailing the rise of PositiveSum thinking.”
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