Articles & Books

If you are what you eat, you think what you read.  This page is meant to give me a dumping ground for the interesting articles and books I’ve stumbled across and continue to stumble across daily.

Halting State – Charles Stross – Orbit Books – 2008
–great accessible story set in 2020 that brings interesting technology to life
–pervasive high bandwidth wifi, data overlays on glasses (eg copspace), gaming

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Penguin – 2008
–more academic business book mixing philosophy, psychology and prediction
–extremistan and mediocristan
–empiric skepticism

The Boroque Cycle – Neal Stephenson – Arrow Books – 2004
–history meets science in a lot, lot of pages

Freakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner – 2005


The Long Tail – Chris Anderson – 2005

The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick – 1962
–alternative history better then near future fiction?
–great traditional Japanese etiquette spun forward

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson – Spectra – 1990
–virtual reality and the metaverse
–hacking the brainstem!