Notes From My Journal

This week’s book?

Aha! It was sitting on my desk – a gift from a reader: Soonish, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. The gift card read, “From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular webcomic ‘Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal,’ an illustrated investigation into future technologies.” It was 368 pages. It had a snappy subtitle: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything. And it was illustrated!  What’s not to like? Needless to say, I read it immediately…