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 Infinite Frontier,” which has been changed into a ebook. 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 many years. And I believe it has a lot resonance to what we have to do at the moment on semiconductors, on A.I., on clear vitality, on biotechnology, on quantum. And it’s actually a narrative about daring public funding and experimentation — unlocking each non-public sector and educational analysis that powered American innovation via many years. Vannevar Bush delivered that proper on the finish of the Second World Battle to F.D.R., and it makes for an excellent learn.
The second is a ebook that I’m simply partly via. I’ll learn the entire thing, however I skipped to the tip as a result of I actually wished to give attention to the A.I. a part of it: “Nexus: A Temporary Historical past of Data Networks from the Stone Age to A.I.,” by Yuval Noah Harari. I believe everybody ought to learn this ebook. 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 just a little 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 device however an agent, and this has all types of implications.
After which the third ebook — a very totally different type of ebook — “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 ebook truly walks via the historical past of the State of affairs Room as advised via a sequence of episodes over a number of presidents.
And I like to recommend it just because it’s exhausting to know what the heck a nationwide safety adviser does. You learn that ebook, you’ll have some sense of the explanation why the baggage below my eyes are so heavy.
Jake Sullivan, thanks very a lot.
Thanks.
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