Inferno
by Dan Brown · first published 2013
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In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a lands
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…metaphor at best - ordinarily it should always involve saving humans. An accidental reversal of the situation as you describe is quite different from the parent's even joking suggestion (as in Dan Brown's 'Inferno' :P) that it would be good to introduce a disease to stop humans from doing more damage. Aside from the basic moral problems with that approach (genocide?), it would not be surprising if any such disease…
I recently read Dan Brown's Inferno - not a great reference work by any stretch, but some compelling arguments are made along the lines you suggest. I suspect there is a lot more to it than just limiting the numbers of babies born. If…
on “Atmospheric CO2 levels accelerate upwards” ↗It's also kind of the plot of Dan Brown's 'Inferno', per wikipedia: > Brooks explains that Zobrist was a geneticist who advocated the halting of humanity's growth, and that he... had supposedly developed a new biological plague that will cause infertility…
on “Alpha-Gal Syndrome” ↗…temporary problems with elderly care (like what China is facing now) but will make long term human prosperity much more likely. We just can't keep growing against limited resources. The Dan Brown book Inferno had a similar premise and I was disappointed they changed the ending in the movie so that it didn't happen.
on “OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI” ↗…Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 20% Brave New World Aldous Huxley 19% Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 18% Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 17% The Lost Symbol Dan Brown 16% Inferno Dan Brown 15% Divergent Veronica Roth 15% The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 15%
on “ChatGPT Secret Training Data: The Top Books AI Bots Are Reading” ↗Wow, this is a terrible interview. The interviewer repeatedly references his book Inferno. I like the Telegraph review of it, "Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown", available here sans paywall: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f... Most inventions related to music,…
on “Dan Brown: The human species has never created a technology it hasn't weaponized” ↗This weirdly reminds me of Dan Brown's "Inferno"
on “It's Me, the Person Putting Drugs in the Halloween Candy (2022)” ↗