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Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth …
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
E-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); TWO: "Mother Earth Motherboard" (Neal's …
Young adult science fiction set in the present or near future. The characters are "gold …
setting the story in China was very important to Doctorow. i feel he really wanted to make a statement about how important the most populous country in the world is. the story is an interesting modern take on union activism and government totalitarianism.
"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important …
the best education in philosophy ive ever read. the story got progressively darker as insanity approached.
The first story was good, then ran out of time to finish it.
Wizard Book n. Hal Abelson's, Jerry Sussman's and Julie Sussman's Structure and Interpretation of Computer …
Also didn't finish. This is a very academic explanation of programming using all LISP examples. I got one good piece of info from it, given the single-assignment property of functional languages, recursion becomes useful because the paramter to the function becomes the index, which can change (increment) on each call.
I loved this book - a really great mix of game mechanics and positive psychology.
The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to "New York Times" bestseller "Daemon, Freedom" features a world …
This book is the next part of the story begun in Daemon. Daemon felt all new, with fantastic weaving of near-future utopian concepts. Freedom felt like a watered down rerun of the first book. Its still enjoyable and there is some great imaginative thinking on what society would look like if we went through the 1800s again, but this time with MakerBots and the Internet.
Die Welt ist nur ein Spiel – das Überleben der Menschheit der Preis. Ein DAEMON hat die digitale Welt erobert, …
Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable …
Daemon covers popular technology topics in a near-future dystopia in the style of Cory Doctorow, with a healthy dose of Michael Bay style action. This book was written to make a blockbuster movie from. That being said, its been one of the most enjoyable futuretech reads yet! The plot lines and detail are real enough to be believable and Suarez has a fun, fast-paced writing style.
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May …
A very personal but also factual account of a horrendous two days at the summit of Mt Everest.
The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great …
Every page of this book came from the enormous amount of research the authors did to find 11 companies that made the leap from good to great. It says to find a core reason for the business in an area that you feel passionate about, that makes money, and is something you can be the best in the world at. It says dont worry about motivating people, the best people are self-motivators and will be inspired by the business's core. Instead try not to do things that de-motivate people. A fantastic read.
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem …
the timeliness of feedback affects a system and creates discernible oscillations in the output.
there is a lot of great advice and educated thinking in this book. The author's background in economics is the most important influence on the writing and he applies that sort of thinking to many subject areas.
my paraphrasing of some of what i found interesting: many people hold erroneous believes about things they do not directly experience because it costs nothing to hold such beliefs. ethical dilemmas such as should one healthy person's organs be harvested to save five sick people from dieing? He creates an Economists Golden Rule to guide all decisions which is to include the benefit and loss felt by everyone involved.
He makes some interesting and controversial claims such as people with few sexual partners could better the world by having more sex which would take away partners from promiscuous partners who may be spreading disease. Also it serves poor people better to spend $2 …
there is a lot of great advice and educated thinking in this book. The author's background in economics is the most important influence on the writing and he applies that sort of thinking to many subject areas.
my paraphrasing of some of what i found interesting: many people hold erroneous believes about things they do not directly experience because it costs nothing to hold such beliefs. ethical dilemmas such as should one healthy person's organs be harvested to save five sick people from dieing? He creates an Economists Golden Rule to guide all decisions which is to include the benefit and loss felt by everyone involved.
He makes some interesting and controversial claims such as people with few sexual partners could better the world by having more sex which would take away partners from promiscuous partners who may be spreading disease. Also it serves poor people better to spend $2 billion on food than $1 billion on food and $1 billion on expensive medical procedures.
