Book selections for 2025 program explore the potential for artificial intelligence to make life better.
The three books selected for Silicon Valley Reads 2025, which has the theme, “Empowering Humanity: Technology for a Better World,” are “Loneliness & Company” by Charlee Dyroff, “The Worlds I See,” by Fei-Fei Li, and “The Mountain in the Sea,” by Ray Nayler. Technology — and artificial intelligence — is a huge part of living in Silicon Valley and increasingly around the world.
With the rapid transformation of our lives spurred by AI, the goal of the program this year is to get people talking about what that transformation might mean.San Jose Sharks going low and slow with Los Tiburones Night giveaway The selections for younger readers are “Someday, Maybe” by Diana Murray, “ARTificial Intelligence” by David Biedrzycki and “The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown, which was recently adapted into a hit animated film. The middle school/YA selections are Lindsay Lackey’s “Farther Than the Moon” and the graphic novel, “The Infinity Particle” by Wendy Xu.
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