by Aseem Gupta | Jun 22, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama follows humanity’s first encounter with an extraterrestrial spacecraft: a vast, apparently deserted cylinder passing through the Solar System. When a human expedition enters the object, its crew discovers an artificial world...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 7, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a bounty hunter must identify and kill six escaped androids in a world where genuine animals are precious, human emotions can be programmed, and the distinction between living creatures and artificial...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 1, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
Australia appears to offer almost everything a prosperous society should. It has high incomes, stable institutions, desirable cities, strong public services, spectacular coastlines and an enormous landmass. For generations, homeownership formed part of the national...