Michael Brooks Book Review: At The Edge of Uncertainty

Michael Brooks Book Review: At The Edge of Uncertainty

Michael Brooks Book Review: At The Edge of Uncertainty

International eXcellence takes a look at Michael Brooks’ latest book “At The Edge of Uncertainty” out now.
Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New Scientist, a magazine with over three quarters of a million readers worldwide,and writes  a weekly column for the New Statesman. He is the author of At The Edge of Uncertainty, The Secret Anarchy of Science and the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense.
His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the Times Higher Education, the Philadelphia Inquirer and many other newspapers and magazines. He has lectured at various places, including New York University, The American Museum of Natural History and Cambridge University.
His last book "13 Things that don't make sense" is a great book, but this new book is something different. At The Edge of Uncertainty is excellent in every way. Clearly Mr Brooks was only warming up with his first tome and now he has certainly found his stride!
This is a master piece of popular science, well written,  entertaining, shocking, easy to read and deeply informative.
This truly excellent book quite literally makes your brain fizz with new ideas in biology, science and technology. All religions should instantly ban it as it leaves little room for ignorance, an essential pillar of extreme faiths, especially those that deprecate animals and our relation to them. Plus it would be good for sales.
Much of the information clearly shared in this fantastic book is ground breaking, sometimes disturbing in its implications and always intellectually stimulating.
Michael Brooks looks at the huge advances in artificial intelligence and psychology, the rapid advancement in genetics, from animal hybrids to human organ growth, the development of  epigenetics (the effect of environment on genes), medical research and so much more. In fact if you are a woman, this book is probably essential reading, unless you knew that most medicines are mainly tested on men and that Ibuprofen is much more effective at pain relief in men than it is in women. There is a big gender difference in the way medicines work. Also pay carefull attention to the chapters on Quantum computing and Hypercomputers, which are strong contenders for the next vast leap forward in technology and make for fascinating reading.
This is a treasure trove for anyone who wants to know about scientific and technological advances today and more importantly what is going to happen in the next few decades. This is futurology at its best, based on statistical and factual evidence available now, but little discussed in mainstream media. All studies, medical trials and statistics are meticulously detailed in the notes at the back of the book for those who wish to fact check or read further.
A marvellous intelligence enhancing book with amazing titbits on how we think, live and behave and how the world around us really works. If you are interested in knowing fact from fiction and would enjoy being the most informed person at the dinner table, then buy this book.
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