I borrowed the audiobook from my library on a whim as the blurb sounded mildly interesting. I'll be honest, this book wasn't really what I had thought it was going to be. In my quick read of the blurb, I mistakenly thought this was going to be some sort of essay about how humans and machines can get along without an inevitable Skynet situation developing. I had planned to scough at the foolishness of the author but only ended up being able to scough at my own foolishness.

Before listening to this book I had never heard of Galaxy Zoo or Zooniverse. Since starting to listen to this book I have become completely obsessed with using my incidental free time ie whilst listening to audiobooks, waiting in line, and, yes, on the toilet, to participate in projects.

I found the history, present, and potential future of citizen scientists/science fascinating and now consider myself a full-blown disciple of the Zooniverse.

I highly recommend both the book and taking a look at Zooniverse.org if you haven't already.