Ideas which the author develops in the third book, at first sight, if not trivial, but obvious enough to the conceiving person: degradation of the person and human relations to which the present model of a consumer society conducts, adjustment under itself by this model achievements of science and technology which on a plan of the people creating these opening and achievements, should develop, refine the person, but in practice in this system only promote its degradation; deadlock of up-to-date economic system grounded on the speculative banking capital.
Yes, all it is obvious enough.
But these ideas are presented very witty and convincingly. Also induce us to reflect about them once again, sometimes in unexpected aspects. And after all we - I mean people like me, "intellectuals", «white collars», working in major transnational corporations, - everything, like it we know and understand, but we try not to think of it. They pay to us not bad in comparison with others - and thank God. And what will be further, it will be visible later, will somehow be bypassed. And the author reminds once again us that «itself will not resolve» and «somehow will not be bypassed».
One more idea which has involved me as the native of Russia, presented by the author with a bit malicious, but clever humour - thought that «Russian earth» inexplicably gives to civilize achievements, ideas always some ugly shape: the educated absolutism transmutes into autocracy, a socialism in the Bolshevism and Stalinism, liberalism - in gangster capitalism … And it is quite possible will agree with the author that "eurointegration" attempts will lead here to occurrence of the new bureaucratic inefficiently devouring monster, with which nobody will know what to do further.

Yes, this book is more like a collection of essays. You can argue with each of them with something, can not. But, in general, the essence of the problems is captured. And this essence is intelligently, briefly, but without loss of meaning conveyed. And due to the aphorism and wit, it is delivered very convincingly.
About all this hype with artificial intelligence. Despite the fact that no one really thinks about the real humanitarian and, in general, civilizational consequences of this HYPE.
And about education, which is actually a huge problem everywhere. And here the author very accurately and concisely expressed the essence of these problems: we do not know what kind of education we need because we do not know what kind of society, world we want to live in.
Many people have been writing about the crisis of the Western-centric model of globalization, implicated in financial speculation, technological (primarily informational) superiority and the cynical right of the strong for several years. But here all this is successfully combined into a single picture with the inclusion of all the significant sources and consequences of this crisis, including cultural, social, psychological and many others. Moreover, everything is again presented in a capacious aphoristic, witty, sometimes breaking down to satire form.
Everything else - about "Bern", "Dervenka", family memories of the main character... - everything looks like a Honey trap, a reserve for future stories, new “puzzles”. Let's wait until these puzzles are laid out.
Personally, I was particularly interested in the puzzle, in which a new hero was brought out – Simon. As an IT person, I would like to discuss a lot of things about it. But I'll hold on for now. I can only say that it turned out to be very entertaining and intriguing with a hint of future developments.
And, in general, to anyone who likes intelligent literature for the brain, but not boring – I recommend reading this book specifically and the whole cycle.

Ideas which the author develops in the third book, at first sight, if not trivial, but obvious enough to the conceiving person: degradation of the person and human relations to which the present model of a consumer society conducts, adjustment under itself by this model achievements of science and technology which on a plan of the people creating these opening and achievements, should develop, refine the person, but in practice in this system only promote its degradation; deadlock of up-to-date economic system grounded on the speculative banking capital.
Yes, all it is obvious enough.
But these ideas are presented very witty and convincingly. Also induce us to reflect about them once again, sometimes in unexpected aspects. And after all we - I mean people like me, "intellectuals", «white collars», working in major transnational corporations, - everything, like it we know and understand, but we try not to think of it. They pay to us not bad in comparison with others - and thank God. And what will be further, it will be visible later, will somehow be bypassed. And the author reminds once again us that «itself will not resolve» and «somehow will not be bypassed».
One more idea which has involved me as the native of Russia, presented by the author with a bit malicious, but clever humour - thought that «Russian earth» inexplicably gives to civilize achievements, ideas always some ugly shape: the educated absolutism transmutes into autocracy, a socialism in the Bolshevism and Stalinism, liberalism - in gangster capitalism … And it is quite possible will agree with the author that "eurointegration" attempts will lead here to occurrence of the new bure

Yes, this book is more like a collection of essays. You can argue with each of them with something, can not. But, in general, the essence of the problems is captured. And this essence is intelligently, briefly, but without loss of meaning conveyed. And due to the aphorism and wit, it is delivered very convincingly.
About all this hype with artificial intelligence. Despite the fact that no one really thinks about the real humanitarian and, in general, civilizational consequences of this HYPE.
And about education, which is actually a huge problem everywhere. And here the author very accurately and concisely expressed the essence of these problems: we do not know what kind of education we need because we do not know what kind of society, world we want to live in.
Many people have been writing about the crisis of the Western-centric model of globalization, implicated in financial speculation, technological (primarily informational) superiority and the cynical right of the strong for several years. But here all this is successfully combined into a single picture with the inclusion of all the significant sources and consequences of this crisis, including cultural, social, psychological and many others. Moreover, everything is again presented in a capacious aphoristic, witty, sometimes breaking down to satire form.
Everything else - about "Bern", "Dervenka", family memories of the main character... - everything looks like a Honey trap, a reserve for future stories, new “puzzles”. Let's wait until these puzzles are laid out.
Personally, I was particularly interested in the puzzle, in which a new hero was brought out – Simon. As an IT person, I would like to discuss a lot of things about it. But I'll hold on for now. I can only say that it turned out to be very entertaining and intriguing with a hint of future developments.
And, in general, to anyone who likes intelligent literature for the brain, but not boring – I recommend reading this book specifically and the whole cycle.

Ideas which the author develops in the third book, at first sight, if not trivial, but obvious enough to the conceiving person: degradation of the person and human relations to which the present model of a consumer society conducts, adjustment under itself by this model achievements of science and technology which on a plan of the people creating these opening and achievements, should develop, refine the person, but in practice in this system only promote its degradation; deadlock of up-to-date economic system grounded on the speculative banking capital.
Yes, all it is obvious enough.
But these ideas are presented very witty and convincingly. Also induce us to reflect about them once again, sometimes in unexpected aspects. And after all we - I mean people like me, "intellectuals", «white collars», working in major transnational corporations, - everything, like it we know and understand, but we try not to think of it. They pay to us not bad in comparison with others - and thank God. And what will be further, it will be visible later, will somehow be bypassed. And the author reminds once again us that «itself will not resolve» and «somehow will not be bypassed».
One more idea which has involved me as the native of Russia, presented by the author with a bit malicious, but clever humour - thought that «Russian earth» inexplicably gives to civilize achievements, ideas always some ugly shape: the educated absolutism transmutes into autocracy, a socialism in the Bolshevism and Stalinism, liberalism - in gangster capitalism … And it is quite possible will agree with the author that "eurointegration" attempts will lead here to occurrence of the new bureaucratic inefficiently devouring monster, with which nobody will know what to do further.