Peter

If you have a background in computer science and/or biology, you'll be familiar with many topics and concepts presented here. Dr. Mitchell nonetheless succeeded in creating an introduction to complex systems understandable to wider public.
Big plus: she described actual experiments and didn't waste time with history lessons.

I often read just to escape from the horrors of the real world for a moment. Read this during second year of pandemic and there were moments when I had put down the book and rather read the news.
Bleak? Yes sir.
Believable when it comes to prediction of human behavior in catastrophic scenarios? Arguably yes.
Should you read this? OH YESSS!!!

Excellent eco-dystopian piece w/ some of the most dreary visions of future maybe not as distant as one would think. Harsh, but in some sense psychadelic universe full of scents, sweat, biologically modified creatures (who however still resemble humans/animals just enough for reader to relate to or identify w/). Solid underlying concepts included. Unique off-the-wall gem of contemporary sci-fi.

Many (not only work-related) phenomena described by Graeber are imo crucial glitches of our current society which tend to be absent from a public discourse.
I think that it's not because we are not aware of them - on the contrary, we know very well that there is a problem but have no idea how to deal w/ it. Therefore even discussion is difficult & painful (the same can be said about the climate change).