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BOOK REVIEW — Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
One of the many take-aways from the book is society should never have left regulatory loopholes open nor government-subsidized their businesses in the…
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
A fun and enlightening exploration of the inter-connectedness of History
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
How well do you know your Alien Intelligence?
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — The Great Leveler Comes for Tech
Big Tech's $266 Billion Wipeout in March 2025 was a market correction and may point to a more long-term trend of the Leveling of America.
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — Convoluted Laboratory
A Book Review of "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis," by Tao Leigh Goffe
 • William R. Dodson
The Oil and Vinegar Economy
Recent spending numbers in the United States actually indicate the wealth of the "Haves" is fast-breaking away from the "Don't Have Much" and "Have…
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — Imperial AI: The Second Draft of History
While journalists like to say they write "the first draft of History," Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI' reads like the second draft.
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — The End of the American Empire
Is America just another "Goliath" Civilization that had a good run for a couple hundred years?
 • William R. Dodson
BOOK REVIEW — How the Rich Have Stalled Progress
The Great Compression’s inventions and shared prosperity built the middle class; today’s rich don't want a middle class nor the innovations it heralded.
 • William R. Dodson
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