1/ Done with book on Time Travel. Recommended because it dares to try tho it doesn't entirely succeed amzn.to/2x2QEMN
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2/ Gleick is probably my favorite pop-science writer because he actually chooses what he thinks is important/interesting...
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3/ Unlike pop-science books by scientists, you don't get the sense of uncritical acceptance of institutional ideas of what is important
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4/ Unlike hacks, you don't get a sense of a topic being picked because it's easy raw material for known-saleable mind-candy
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5/ Chaos, Information Theory, and now Time Travel, Gleick has a history of picking up on what actually matters in the zeitgeist
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6/ Even if he isn't entirely equipped to treat the topic (and who is, with such difficult ones?), the important thing is that he tries
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7/ I've been exploring time travel in my own writing for last few years, both fiction/non-fiction, openly/stealthily. Not an idle interest
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8/ For a lot of reasons, the intersection of speculative/hard science, and literary and SF fiction that is TT is of practical interest today
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9/ In part I like Gleick because his sense of what is important to think about at any given time matches mine. It's partly validation vanity
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10/ But there's a there there to it. Time travel is on cusp of practical importance, not because it is literally feasible, but because...
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11/ ...Temporality (and atemporality) in general are getting to be complex, interesting, and of engineering interest now (VR/AR, blockchain)
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12/ So trust me, and if not me, trust Gleick. Time travel is worth thinking about and taking seriously now, despite still being impossible
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