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Started Out Well But Lost Its Way

Revisado: 03-18-24

The book started out quite well, imparting lots of useful information but then took a serious left turn in chapter 4, moving away from the bedrock of computer science and into the territory of ideology.

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Started strong, then crashed and burned

Revisado: 03-09-24

The book started reasonably strong with a decent introduction into AI and then moved to present a few thought provoking possibilities in the earlier chapters. Unfortunately, the narrative then moved into an overly generalized fuzzy zone, becoming less and less coherent until the focus became anti-racism and social justice, becoming completely untethered to science. In the latter chapters, it seemed apparent that the author of that section had a poor grasp of statistics and no understanding of how computers are actually programmed. My impression by the end was that they were delivering an imperative; that the future development of AI must be essentially hacked to fit a specific ideology. After reading this, one can see exactly how the Google Gemini AI project managed to get so far off the rails.

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Clear sincere, insightful

Revisado: 12-28-23

This book is an amazing insightful critique on the sociological trends of our times. With the benefit of hindsight since the book was written, all the predictions have either come true or are emerging as truths, especially the warning at the end, which is particularly ominous.

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Lacks Originality

Revisado: 01-24-21

The performance is excellent but the story was pretty much the well worn tale of the trials and tribulations of elite soldiers in training everywhere. It could have been set in the modern day without changing more than a handful of words. There was almost none of the sci-fi that characterizes the wonderful main series of novels.

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An interesting but incompete historical critique

Revisado: 03-17-20

The revelation that the secarian violent tendencies that (erroneously) seem to characterize both Sunni and Shia Islam today is a relatively modern phenomenon is enlightening and worth the read. However, readers who assume that a viable path forward is forthcoming are sadly frustrated. Also conspicuously and surprisingly absent is an explaination of the irrational but apparently universal hatred of Jews amongst those in the Islamic world.

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Doesn't work in an audio format

Revisado: 07-16-13

The author liberally applied long lists of related items that might work in printed form but were really annoying in an audio book.

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Reads like a infomercial

Revisado: 04-14-13

Would you try another book from Hiroshi Mikitani and/or Jun Naito?

I wouldn't bother reading another book by Hiroshi Mikitani.

What could Hiroshi Mikitani have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Hiroshi Mikitani should have delved into issue building global markets, as implied by the title, instead of focusing almost exclusively on his internal HR processes.

What does Jun Naito bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The narrator was fine.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Marketplace 3.0?

Everything except the section about introducing English

Any additional comments?

The book is really a long boring boast about the success of Hiroshi Mikitani's company. The issue of bringing English into the company as a means of upsetting the traditional social hierarchy and putting the management in to a global mindset is interesting. The rest of the book is not.

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Psudo-Science Poppycock

Revisado: 10-28-12

What would have made The Source Field Investigations better?

The book would have been better if it had any basis in reality

Has The Source Field Investigations turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, but thankfully it wasn't the first in the genre or it would have.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

The author's narration was fine.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

An intense feeling I was using my time poorly and remorse for the money I had wasted.

Any additional comments?

The author seems to believe every bizarre myth, story, rumor, and tall tale that was ever dreamed up. He presents this all in an entirely unfiltered list, each point of which is apparently supposed to have some connection to the rest but most of which are actually completely unrelated. He jumps from conjecture, to wild speculation, to conclusion, without the benefit of any actual evidence. He wraps this all up on a pseudo-science package that is supposed to inspire confidence but fails miserably. Fundamentally, his thought process lacks cohesion.

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