To your big quantities of spare studying time, I’m certain.
Sure, precisely. So for me, three books: The primary is definitely a report from 1945 by Vannevar Bush to Franklin D. Roosevelt known as “Science, the Limitless Frontier,” which has been changed into a e-book. You may get it on Amazon, and it’s principally the blueprint for America’s nationwide science and know-how coverage for the following a number of a long time. And I feel it has a lot resonance to what we have to do right this moment on semiconductors, on A.I., on clear power, on biotechnology, on quantum. And it’s actually a narrative about daring public funding and experimentation — unlocking each personal sector and tutorial analysis that powered American innovation via a long time. Vannevar Bush delivered that proper on the finish of the Second World Warfare to F.D.R., and it makes for an excellent learn.
The second is a e-book that I’m simply partly via. I’ll learn the entire thing, however I skipped to the top as a result of I actually wished to deal with the A.I. a part of it: “Nexus: A Transient Historical past of Info Networks from the Stone Age to A.I.,” by Yuval Noah Harari. I feel everybody ought to learn this e-book. I don’t agree with each phrase of it, however it paints an image of what we’re going to be contending with synthetic intelligence that, frankly, is a bit bit worrisome however can also be so deeply considerate. One of many factors he makes is: For the primary time, people are inventing not a instrument however an agent, and this has every kind of implications.
After which the third e-book — a very totally different sort of e-book — “The State of affairs Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Disaster,” which George Stephanopoulos wrote. If you wish to perceive my job and what sitting within the State of affairs Room is like — coping with crises, with presidents, with secretaries of state and protection — this e-book truly walks via the historical past of the State of affairs Room as instructed via a sequence of episodes over a number of presidents.
And I like to recommend it just because it’s arduous to know what the heck a nationwide safety adviser does. You learn that e-book, you’ll have some sense of the rationale why the baggage underneath my eyes are so heavy.
Jake Sullivan, thanks very a lot.
Thanks.
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