Soonish

Started this with some enthusiasm which sadly wained. Subject area exciting and should have me entranced. Perhaps I'm being very unkind, in that it felt to me like an enlarged Wikipedia article, a collection of fact after fact with humor to leaven the fact... that it was boring. The humor felt forced something inserted to an editorial plan rather than flowing from and with the text. But I did learn so it served a purpose. It was a helicopter view so that's the level I learned at, a sense of landscape with little detail as if each technology was represented by one or two “selfies”. This is probably fine if you know little about the directions of modern science but if you read a science magazine like New Scientist now and then and particularly its excellent collections series, or listen to the many podcasts available, there really is little here for you