Tuesday, July 9, 2024

The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli

(read aloud)

   An amazingly prescient book, which vividly explains Putin through the eyes of a fictitious advisor. Underneath the story looms the Russia of the ages, not western, not fully eastern. The musings about authority, persuasion, and the future of machines and robots and artificial intelligence are sobering. The Ukraine conflict seems entirely caused by the west.

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