I continue with reading hard science-fiction books as planned. Recently, I’ve bought a number of used and new books, some I borrowed in the library. In my mind reading is essential for learning and understanding, for it’s possible to have a rudimentary understanding of things without knowing how to read or write, but there is a threshold which you won’t be able to pass if you don’t read.

At our current level of technological evolution we don’t know how to upload knowledge and understanding into brain and, frankly, it seems quite impossible. Sci-fi writers and, mostly, futurists have a strange conviction that it will be possible in the near future. But we are far away from even understanding how a single cell works. Actually, we really don’t know how a cell works, not to mention that a human body consists of trillions (1,000,000,000,000) of cells.

So, until that future time comes, if ever, we are stuck with the old way of knowledge acquisition and understanding, which is by reading books and trying to understand the concepts in them. Trying to play with the ideas and apply them in practice.