The Ministry for the Future

Didn't really appreciated this read, I don't know if it was the French translation or the author's writing, but I didn't like the way the story was told. To be honest a lot of it would have felt more logical inside an essay than into this fiction form. I found that everything surrounding the ideas was both useless and badly written and at the end didn't served the ideas that well.

I can understand the appeal, but to me this book was lacking on several parts besides the writings. There was a part about French yellow jackets presenting them as ecological warrior that felt totally wrong (as the movement emerged to fight oil price increase), and also a solution based on blockchain without too much thinking about the energy cost of the technology that looked a bit like a tech venture fever dream.

Some parts and ideas were good and I discovered a lot of initiatives and possibilities for our future, which gave me a bit of hope, but this book didn't feel as ground-breaking as the hype make it seems.