Taking the weekend away from the solar project work now that the back end stuff is mostly done. I will start the React programming on Monday 11th November. I'm currently ahead of schedule again but I need to leave plenty of time for unpredicted mishaps and the work involved in getting it all up and running on AWS. That may take considerable time.

This weekend, I am starting to read The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. The publication has been on my list for a few months so it is somewhat overdue.

This region, the true centre of the earth, is obscure to many in the English-speaking world. Yet this is where civilization itself began, where the world's great religions were born and took root. The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections, but networks that linked continents and oceans together. Along them flowed ideas, goods, disease and death. This was where empires were won - and where they were lost. As a new era emerges, the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have criss-crossed Asia for millennia. The Silk Roads are rising again.

The other book is Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom. This superb analysis by one of the worlds clearest thinkers tackles one of humanitys greatest challenges — if future superhuman artificial intelligence becomes the biggest event in human history, then how can we ensure that it does not become the last?