The one hundred and thirty-fourth book: #455 I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
While I'm on the record as enjoying the works of Isaac Asimov anyway, reading I, Robot in the modern day has an added dimension in its foresight. While the basic stories about the three laws of robotics - a fictional device so powerful that people assume it's real and applies to current machines - are interesting puzzles, it's the later stories in this anthology that hit a real chord with me. With machines effectively running politics and the world, the needed processing capacity becomes large enough that as humans, we struggle to understand its reasoning. This feels really familiar in our current use of AI, where we can't verify what it's saying or why it does so, to troubling effect. There's a lot to be learned here, even if it feels like an idealised society compared to the one we live in now, and for a work that's 75 years old, there's a lot that still resonates.