Doomsday Calculation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Nonsense talking and gossiping without quality content. The author has zero idea and thoughts. He does nothing else but copy paste sentences of great people and create jumbles. Very poorly written book.

Great insights on the human obsession with nihilism.

As a fan of ‘Fortune’s Formula’ I was excited to his latest book - particularly knowing that it would discuss the Fermi paradox and Gott’s Copernicus model. Poundstone does a great job summarizing the various strong opinions and rationales among the physics community. Poundstone’s detailed writing style and exposition of the scientific context makes Gott’s proposed solution to the Fermi paradox more credible (to me) than the typical ones I’ve read. THe sections on fine tuning and observers was excellent as well. Overall, very good book and worth the wait. I will be re-reading sections of this many times to come in the future.

This book looks doomsday dead in the eyes and proposes to send math to figure it out. I will confess that I had never heard of the Copernican Delta-T method when I first read the book, but now I think about these kinds of Fermi problems everywhere. This book, an excellent companion to Superforecasting presents an epic and interesting mathematical tale. It's everything one should expect from William Poundstone.

It may sound strange, but it was a great read on how odd it is that we are still here (read the book to get the pun).