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Industries of the Future by   Alec J. Ross Senior Innovation Adviser" to the Obama administration and tech policy guru Alec Ross deconstructs recent trends in tech around the world in an effort to project some semblance of where we're headed in this increasingly digitized, analyzed global market. He explores the frontiers of robotics, genomics, Big Data, cryptocurrencies and cyberattacks-- but not without setting the historical stage for each industry's inception and meteoric growth. I think what I appreciated most was learning how different nations are setting the stage for advances in these fields: either by trying to recreate Silicon Valley, by opening up the workforce (to young adults and women), or by leap-frogging past generations of innovations (ie: African countries getting cell phones before landlines)

Final Girls by   Riley Sager Whatever happens to survivors of horrific massacres? After the slasher flick is over and the credits start to roll, how do they cope with the physical and psychological trauma? This is the overarching premise behind Final Girls. Somewhere in the middle of the book I developed such an intense dislike for the protagonist which, intentionally or not, was a perfect parallel to the intense frustration we all feel in horror films when you want to scream at the characters "Don't go in there! Why are you so stupid?!?". I guess I finally understand people's hatred of imperfect, unreliable narrators, critiques which I readily dismissed for Girl on the Train and Gone Girl because I felt a special resonance with those sketchy betches. All that said, by the time the story began to wrap up, I was all aboard for the unexpected but extremely satisfying denouement. All in all, a deliciously thrilling mystery as long as you give yourself space for ...