Ik ben al een tijdje een lang boek aan het lezen, maar het is achter de rug, hoezee!

Niet dat het slecht was of zo, maar ’t was toch zeer duidelijk geschreven in episodes, en allemaal een eerste draft, en er waren hier en daar toch momenten dat ik dacht dat een beetje redactie zou geholpen hebben.

Die keer dat het verhaal zonder boe of ba plots anderhalf jaar in de toekomst sprong, bijvoorbeel, terwijl het de 8000 bladzijden ervoor bijna een dag-per-dag-vertelling was.

Maar alla.

Op naar al die andere boeken die op mijn todo-lijst stonden. Te beginnen met, jawel, de laatste worp van Renowned Dan Brown. Origin is de naam, en ik ben nog maar net begonnen en ’t is al van dat.

Dit bijvoorbeeld:

“A Turing test.”

“Precisely.”

The Turing test, Langdon recalled, was a challenge proposed by code-breaker Alan Turing to assess a machine’s ability to behave in a manner indistinguishable from that of a human. Essentially, a human judge listened to a conversation between a machine and a human, and if the judge was unable to identify which participant was human, then the Turing test was considered to have been passed. Turing’s benchmark challenge had famously been passed in 2014 at the Royal Society in London. Since then, AI technology had progressed at a blinding rate.

Of dit:

“I am not exaggerating when I tell you that my discovery will have repercussions on the scale of the Copernican revolution.”

For a moment, Langdon thought his host was joking, but Edmond’s expression remained dead serious.

Copernicus? Humility had never been one of Edmond’s strong suits, but this claim sounded borderline preposterous. Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s that entirely obliterated the Church’s long-held teaching that mankind occupied the center of God’s universe. His discovery was condemned by the Church for three centuries, but the damage had been done, and the world had never been the same.

Of deze:

He hired an Uber, Langdon thought, wondering if the move was brilliant or incredibly shortsighted.

Uber’s ubiquitous “on-demand driver” service had taken the world by storm over the past few years. Via smartphone, anyone requiring a ride could instantly connect with a growing army of Uber drivers who made extra money by hiring out their own cars as improvised taxis.

Yiha Dan Brown! (En als ge hier toch zijt, herlees deze nog eens van dertien jaar geleden.) 🙂