Wong recommended three books that have influenced him: 'The Jesuits' by Marcus Friedrich (study of a successful organization with influence in scholarship and church affairs); 'Last and First Men' by Olaf Stapleton (1930s novel imagining the human race millions of years in the future, with time-spanning perspective); 'Disturbing the Universe' by Freeman Dyson (essays on space travel, nuclear propulsion, civil rights, and big science).
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“I read a very good book last year uh called the Jesuits by a German historian called Marcus Friedrich I like is something called last and first men which is a British novel uh written in the about the 1930s a by a hegelian professor called Olaf Stapleton the third book I'll recommend is a set of essays by Freeman Dyson called disturbing the universe which talks about you know his experiences in trying to do space travel”
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