What Tech Titans Don’t Understand About Sci-Fi

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. When I read Thomas More’s Utopia in college, the main thing I retained was that the inhabitants of More’s imaginary island worked just six hours a day and earned what we might now call a universal basic income. But the fact that I came away from this 16th-century classic with only visions of a shorter workday and a generous allowance says more about my undergraduate habits than it does…