[LISTENED TO: July 2023] The Future is Yours
I didn’t know much about this book, but the blurb sounded good.
And wow, was it a a well-told future/time-travel story. I also really enjoyed that whole cast that was employed for the book. Usually a single narrator is fine, but there were so many different voices in this story that having multiple narrators was great.
I had known Cary Hite from a Mike Chen novel so his familiar voice was great. He reads the part of Ben Boyce a young entrepreneur who has great ideas for how to get startups to work. He is best friends with Adhi Chaudry (read by Vikas Adam).
Adhi is a once-in-a-generation genius. He writes a thesis that postulates creating a kind of time travel machine using quantum computers. Fortunately, there’s not a lot of hard science here, so you don’t really have to know what they’re talking about (I also have no idea if what they postulate is feasible in reality). The thesis is so theoretical that Stanford doesn’t want him to defend it because they think it’s more philosophical than computer science based.
Adhi struggles with things a lot (he is bipolar) but Ben is always there for him. Ben believes in him 100%. So when Adhi gets a job at Google (and hates it) and Ben has tried a few startups (that have failed), Ben asks Adhi about that thesis. And what they might be able to do with it. (more…)
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