比尔·盖茨为你推荐：2022年夏天要读的5本好书！（附视频&解说稿）
喜欢阅读的比尔·盖茨又来推书啦，就在6月8日，他分享了2022年值得阅读的5本好书，今夏的这份书单涵盖了气候变化的影响、与性别相关的权力以及美国两极分化的原因等主题，还有一本以20世纪50年代的美国为背景的冒险小说作为消遣读物。
这份书单里面的五本阅读书目包括娜奥米·阿尔德曼的《力量》、埃兹拉·克莱因的《为什么我们会两极分化》、埃默·托尔斯的《林肯公路》、金·斯坦利·罗宾逊的《未来部》以及瓦茨拉夫·斯米尔的《世界怎样运转》，喜欢阅读的你快来收好这份夏季书单 ，和他同读一本书吧！
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It’s time for my summer book recommendations.
Here are five books I really enjoyed reading.
“The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles.
Amor Towles is good.
I’d rank “A Gentleman in Moscow” the highest, but this is still a very good book.
The characters are all pretty interesting.
That’s the heart and soul of his book.
It’s sort of a tale of morality, that you need to watch what you do and be careful out there.
There’s definitely a sense that the world’s kind of a dangerous and unpredictable place.
The end has a lot of twists and turns.
Why did this happen? Why did this guy behave this way? And is kind of excitingly fantastical, and by the end you understand those characters.
“Why We’re Polarized” by Ezra Klein.
Well, sadly I have to say that literally, until I read this book, I kept thinking, we’re just not making our arguments carefully enough.
This book aligns so many things about open mindedness and therefore, liking the past versus the present, and thinking of immigrations as kind of threatening.
It’s good to be reminded of how messed up things were, particularly with respect to race, in the past.
His framework explains a broader set of things than any other framework I’d seen.
But, it’s kind of daunting, even though it’s clarifying.
I feel like I have more understanding of what’s gone on and that it’ll help me predict things better.
“The Ministry for the Future”, Kim Stanley Robinson.
It’s a wild book because it has everything.
The way that it pushes socialistic solutions or organic farming or this carbon coin thing.
Those are not real solutions.
But the idea of the incredible unrest and how you go backwards, if you don’t get on top of this thing, and that you should be thinking about the people born in the future and what the world is going to be like for them.
It’s got some amazing stuff in it.
“How the World Really Works” by Vaclav Smil.
It’s quite a readable book and explains the physical economy.
It’s such important knowledge.
You know, wow, there’s a lot of cement making.
There’s a lot of steel making.
These are very optimized processes that allow us to have roads and buildings, and stay out of the weather.
He doesn’t go so far back in history that it feels obscure.
It’s a very foundational piece of work to understand why climate change is so hard to solve, because even once you have innovations, scaling them out to replace all the physical economy is so difficult.
And if it’s more expensive, that will feel like, hey, living standards are going down instead of going up.
“How the World Really Works” is a profound book.
“The Power”, by Naomi Alderman.
“The Power” is very provocative.
It imagines a world where women end up being able to use electricity as a weapon, and it changes the gender balance of power so dramatically.
You meet people like Margot, Ally, Roxy.
They were all pretty tough.
Allie, who becomes Mother Eve and has a religious slant and develops a big following.
It’s certainly a troubling vision, but I think it’s part of getting people thinking about gender imbalances.
I think it’s a powerful story.
I hope you try these books.
I really enjoyed them.
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I got to read a lot of great books this year.
Here’s five that I recommend.
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir.
Great science fiction book.
Very up to date.
A scientist, very knowledgeable but a lot of self-doubt.
It’s very clever.
The truly implausible steps...
an alien race showing up, these mind-blowingly energetic fuel particles.
It requires a leap of faith, but it’s got a lot of science in it.
Fun for anybody who likes science fiction.
Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell is about Shakespeare’s family.
Good evening, Bill! It’s kind of history, a little bit.
What was it like living in this village, the different professions, and it’s kind of fiction.
The characters are vivid and interesting.
A real insight into that period and what an unusual person Shakespeare was.
I recommend it. It’s a good story.
It’s very touching.
The Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson.
Every Isaacson book is good.
The Code Breaker, is about how Jennifer Doudna and other scientists discovered a new way to edit DNA, called CRISPR.
Walter Isaacson, as usual, does a very thorough job of the complex history and, discussion of how will it get used? Will it just be used to cure diseases or make kids smarter or better looking? What are we going to do with this amazing tool? A Thousand Brains, by Jeff Hawkins.
Jeff Hawkins is lucky, he gets to think about the brain.
How does the brain work? He talks about columnar reference frames and how he thinks that’s one of the keys to understanding the brain.
How the different pieces are organized and coordinate together.
I’d call it modest progress in suggesting the structure of the brain.
Anybody who’s interested in the brain this is a state-of-the-art book.
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
It’s told from the point of view of the robot.
Very clever. It will make you think.
It’s probably healthier talking to a robot, than just watching TV.
I always felt that way about interactive activities versus passive viewing anyway.
We’re going to have a lot of robots in our lives.
Whether you’re looking for a good book to read, or a gift idea for someone else, I hope you find these recommendations helpful.
I hope you like them.
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