These 2 recent books are worth your time. In fact I recommend that you can pass these 2 to kids as well.
First one is Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Noah Harari . This brilliant book on history of humankind. Author is a master storyteller and covered the entire history of humankind in one book. Undoubtedly a Must Read! Pass it to your younger ones as well.
My next pick is Tim O'Reilly's WTF? - What's The Future! This is a different book. Author, Tim O'Reilly is a Technology Industry thought leader. This book depicts what future holds for us. Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) will change our life, society and everything around us in a dramatic way. And it will happen in no time. Stop for a moment and go back 10 years - was there a Google Map for Navigation, was there a whatspp for real time chatting, was there a face book to share photo and news? AI & ML will get into our life much faster than Whatspp, Google map. Imagine what will happen when most of the jobs today done by human will replaced by Cybrog.
I briefly talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) in National Children's Science Congress at Kokrajhar. Will write the experience of visiting Kokrajhar to attend NCSC 2017 in an another post.