Butterflies: The Strange Metamorphosis of Fact & Fiction In Today's World
Book Details
Author(s)Daniel M. Harrison
ISBN / ASIN1512128686
ISBN-139781512128680
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
A sure candidate for the title of "The Great Millennial Novel", Butterflies is a tour-de-force of the millennial mind. If you really want to understand the millennial mindset, this is the book you need to read.
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Written by successful entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Daniel M. Harrison, previously the editor of Coinspeaker as well as a columnist for Motley Fool, TheStreet, The Wall Street Journal Europe and other leading publications, Butterflies: The Strange Metamorphosis of Fact & Fiction In Today's World is boldly contemporary.
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Part novel, part history, this frightening and eye-opening story about the evolution of technology over the next millennia is set in contemporary Shanghai and New York. With a wide pan across time's ascending technological revolution, Harrison paints a picture of a contemporary society where hard drug use is commonplace rather than controversial, where incest is a natural byproduct of more than three decades of an abundant sexual revolution, and where wealth is increasing in unprecedented fashion in capital cities the world over.
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The story's protagonists - who span a range of different individuals, from artists and writers to technologists to the business elite - are mostly young, beautiful and filthy rich, but at their core they all share a more deep-rooted conviction: preserving and expanding the realm and influence of their own self-interest.
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By tying in Descartes' infamous conceptualization of "I Think Therefore I Am" together with an extraordinarily imaginary evolution of the Blockchain, whereby it becomes the first form of artificial intelligence to interact with our technological landscape on an interpersonal level, Harrison shows the dangers and hypocracy that the legal system, sovereign nations themselves and all forms of collectivized institutional thinking pose to the world if left unchecked as they have been for the past century.
At the same time, Harrison shows us why we must abandon our primitive notion of self-interest, and instead embrace a more mutually-aligned rationale whereby we don't issue severe penalties for petty crimes, where we develop our understanding of the entire context of the world not as just one individual but as multiple people all trying to accomplish the same end goals.
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A powerful and evocative work of fiction and non-fiction, Butterflies breaks all the conventional rules of literature at a time when most of the conventional rules of society and policy themselves are being challenged to defend themselves against the pervasiveness of technologies that stand to bypass them in just a few years time.
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Butterflies is a futuristic but ultimately, realistic tale and is "shockingly original" in the words of one reviewer. Already proving to be an enduring bestseller a little over a month since the first published draft was released on Kindle and in paperback form at the beginning of April, Butterflies promises to stand the course of time, and possibly become the hallmark of the post-Millennial era in its destination point as The Great Millennial Novel.
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What Readers are saying about "Butterflies"
"An extremely thoughtful and engaging book especially within the real world sense."
"One of the most thought provoking books that I think I've ever read."
"A truly original mind at work and a skilful and thrilling author!"
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"Tremendously stimulating and engaging reading material. I feel like I really learned something new and see the world a bit differently now. Two thumbs up."
"Harrison masters the the line of compelling narrative and intriguing insight ... Highly Recommended."
 "A rollicking good ride through all that's right and wrong with today's world ... This book will open a lot of eyes."
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"All in all this was an excellent read: a bleak, dismal, yet intricate portrayal of the financial times we live in. Five scintillating stars for this author, and I can't wait to see what he does next."
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Written by successful entrepreneur and award-winning journalist Daniel M. Harrison, previously the editor of Coinspeaker as well as a columnist for Motley Fool, TheStreet, The Wall Street Journal Europe and other leading publications, Butterflies: The Strange Metamorphosis of Fact & Fiction In Today's World is boldly contemporary.
Â
Part novel, part history, this frightening and eye-opening story about the evolution of technology over the next millennia is set in contemporary Shanghai and New York. With a wide pan across time's ascending technological revolution, Harrison paints a picture of a contemporary society where hard drug use is commonplace rather than controversial, where incest is a natural byproduct of more than three decades of an abundant sexual revolution, and where wealth is increasing in unprecedented fashion in capital cities the world over.
Â
The story's protagonists - who span a range of different individuals, from artists and writers to technologists to the business elite - are mostly young, beautiful and filthy rich, but at their core they all share a more deep-rooted conviction: preserving and expanding the realm and influence of their own self-interest.
Â
By tying in Descartes' infamous conceptualization of "I Think Therefore I Am" together with an extraordinarily imaginary evolution of the Blockchain, whereby it becomes the first form of artificial intelligence to interact with our technological landscape on an interpersonal level, Harrison shows the dangers and hypocracy that the legal system, sovereign nations themselves and all forms of collectivized institutional thinking pose to the world if left unchecked as they have been for the past century.
At the same time, Harrison shows us why we must abandon our primitive notion of self-interest, and instead embrace a more mutually-aligned rationale whereby we don't issue severe penalties for petty crimes, where we develop our understanding of the entire context of the world not as just one individual but as multiple people all trying to accomplish the same end goals.
Â
A powerful and evocative work of fiction and non-fiction, Butterflies breaks all the conventional rules of literature at a time when most of the conventional rules of society and policy themselves are being challenged to defend themselves against the pervasiveness of technologies that stand to bypass them in just a few years time.
Â
Butterflies is a futuristic but ultimately, realistic tale and is "shockingly original" in the words of one reviewer. Already proving to be an enduring bestseller a little over a month since the first published draft was released on Kindle and in paperback form at the beginning of April, Butterflies promises to stand the course of time, and possibly become the hallmark of the post-Millennial era in its destination point as The Great Millennial Novel.
Â
What Readers are saying about "Butterflies"
"An extremely thoughtful and engaging book especially within the real world sense."
"One of the most thought provoking books that I think I've ever read."
"A truly original mind at work and a skilful and thrilling author!"
Â
"Tremendously stimulating and engaging reading material. I feel like I really learned something new and see the world a bit differently now. Two thumbs up."
"Harrison masters the the line of compelling narrative and intriguing insight ... Highly Recommended."
 "A rollicking good ride through all that's right and wrong with today's world ... This book will open a lot of eyes."
Â
"All in all this was an excellent read: a bleak, dismal, yet intricate portrayal of the financial times we live in. Five scintillating stars for this author, and I can't wait to see what he does next."
