Ietrio's Reviews > Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

In a way, this book is the key to understanding why the progress is so slow, compared to what the specie could advance. The issue rests on how the Government schooling is organized: the smart ones get into technical fields, and the others are receiving compensation University diplomas so they won't feel dumb. And this way Humanity gets people like Fagan who would probably be very qualified driving a cab, or cooking in some cafeteria. Fagan lives in a world populated by gods, Civilization, Society. And his ability to synthesize is closer to the hamburgers he should have assembled for a living: it is not mass production of food, it's the god of Fishing.