A review of an obsolete book…

You know what’s fun about obsolescence as a meme? I can write about anything old and I don’t need to peg it to something going on now. It’s anti-news! This is a really good excuse to not feel guilty about not reading today’s paper. You know?

Here is I piece I just did for Vice Magazine’s Motherboard.tv

Some people sleep walk. Some sleep talk. I sleep shop. Specifically, I buy for books on Amazon.

As for as vices go, this is a pretty fun one. I’m always getting these surprise packages in the mail! Fortunately, I’m usually quite frugal in my somnolence—my sleeping self only buys books that are under $10 (including shipping). What’s more, she has interesting taste. The other day, for instance, she ordered The Millennium Bug: How to Survive the Coming Chaos.

This tome, by Michael Hyatt, is a work of nonfiction. I say this as you should not confuse it with Hyatt’s novel published the same year, Y2K: The Day the World Shut Down. Millennium Bug is a thoughtful look at how we got into this whole Y2K mess and how we are going do to survive it. Because your safety is important to me, I’ve created this digest version of the book. I’ve jumped around page-wise, but I’ve tried to not take anything out of context. Okay? Okay. Here we go.

(To read the rest of the review, click here)

(PS: Some post-sleep-shopping Googling makes me think I initially found the book at Paleofuture—a super-wonderful-lovely site all about past ideas of what the future would be like.)