... Your Mind
Education is the key to a better future for everyone, and the Planet Earth.
Here is a book that I finished shortly after its publication date. I highly recommend that you read this book if you want to gain a new way of thinking about the pace that life and technology are traveling at. If you are an educator, or in government, you pretty much have to read this book.
An Optimist’s Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer “What’s Next?"
Mark Stevenson - Feb-2011
Read about it at:
A sample chapter is available here.
Here are several books I read all around the same time (in the early '90's), just as I was beginning to really get into Computers and the Internet. Although much of the information may be dated now, a lot of the concepts presented in these texts are timeless. And if you are at all interested in History (especially of Computers), you will likely find these quite fascinating.
The Soul of a New Machine
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
25th Anniversary Edition
There is an extensive introduction here, which includes a great "exclusive"by the author for this edition, plus a link to a letter by Bill Gates.
The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
Bruce Sterling - 1-Nov-1992
Not for Commercial Use
Housed at MIT
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Clifford Stoll - 1989
Note:
This story takes "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" to a whole new level.
Don't be tempted to read the follow-up book: Silicon Snake Oil... (ref).
The Mushroom Theory of Management:
Keep 'em in the dark.
Feed 'em sh*t.
Watch 'em grow.
i.e. Isolate the design team from outside influences and, instead, using the fear of the unknown to motivate them.
from: The Soul of a New Machine
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