Tavish rated Coding Democracy: 5 stars

Coding Democracy by Cory Doctorow, Maureen Webb
Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a …
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Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a …
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles …
Second time I've read this, and it was still as good as I remembered. It is long, and maybe a lot fat could be cut from it, but this was the first big space opera type book I had read and I still liked it a lot.
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Dark Matter is a science fiction thriller novel by American writer Blake Crouch, first published in the United States in …
The story of id software and the two Johns is already quite well known, and this book is great if you want more of that story. Really enjoyed listening to this. Side-note: if you want the nitty-gritty of Carmack's early (or later) rendering tech, you should look at youtube or articles elsewhere.
Loved listening to this as an audiobook. As a science book, it was really educational about what we know about the 'umwelt' of the creatures that we share the world with. More than that, it also talks about the effect humans have had on these that most of us don't realize.
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video …
3.5/5 stars, I went in with really high expectations maybe.
It's a enjoyable space opera with two interlinked plots happening at the same time, one about a transcendent being taking over civilizations, and one about a 'medieval' one with psychic dogs and a crashed spaceship.
I have a theory about this book; for the first plot above, the author is actually writing about flame wars on internet bulletin boards, and IRC (relays, 'netsplits'), some people having dial-up and some having 'broadband'.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening …
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …