R Scott Bakker's books if you're feeling like questioning your free will. Beautifully bleak and philosophical. Imagine if Tolkien had his heart broken instead of marriage and wrote on that.
We make a sad couple,” she said, as though making a casual observation.
“Why would you say that?”
“A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There’s something sad about that.”
He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. “There’s something sad about all couples,” he said.”
Not only Idiocracy, but Silicon Valley gives perfect insight into our train wreck of a tech industry and the type of personalities that sink to the top in it.
Long story short, a perfect red heifer is needed to purify clergy in order for the 3rd temple to be consecrated. The only problem is that there's kinda an important mosque sitting where that temple would be.
Pay attention to history. Supply crunches like this are followed by supply glut.
There's a reason why a company like SanDisk is signing multi year fixed price contracts now with the big data guys. That's not a bet on hardware prices continuing to rise.
Even jazz is punk now