[This Week's Books] 'Ethereum Billionaires' and More

by Park Pyunghee

Published 14 Jun.2024 11:17(KST)

Ethereum Billionaires

The former editor-in-chief of the economic magazine Forbes interviewed over 200 people for three years to write this. It tells the early story of Ethereum, created by eight co-founders who gathered in a rented house in Switzerland on June 7, 2014. At the time of its listing in 2015, Ethereum was worth only 500 won, but its value has now exceeded 5 million won. Ethereum is compared to "Google" and Bitcoin to "Yahoo," with predictions that Ethereum will one day surpass Bitcoin. This book delves into the early history to explore how likely that possibility is and to foresee the future. (Written by Laura Shin / Translated by Park Se-yeon / Wisdom House)

The Future Is Not Created

Emphasizing that human creativity remains important even in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), this book explores the essence of creativity. The author’s major is physics. He graduated from the Department of Physics at Seoul National University and earned a Ph.D. in statistical physics from the University of Michigan in the United States. Currently, he is a professor at the Graduate School of Culture Technology at KAIST and introduces himself as a cultural physicist. He argues that science and culture have driven each other’s development, and human creativity blossomed at their intersection. (Written by Park Ju-yong / East Asia)

Yoshida Sh?in, Rebel of His Era

Yoshida Sh?in is known as the father of Japanese right-wing ideology and the figure who systematized the theory of punishing the Korean Peninsula (Jeonghanron). He was the teacher of It? Hirobumi and the spiritual mentor of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This book examines the lives of Yoshida Sh?in and his disciples at his school, Sh?ka Sonjuku. Sh?in’s students played a central role in the Meiji Restoration of Japan. As a foundational figure in modern Japanese thought, there are nearly 1,200 books about Yoshida Sh?in in Japan. This work offers a broad perspective to understand the modern and contemporary history of Korea and Japan. (Written by Kim Se-jin / Homilbat)