Eric Maynard: booksThoughts and commentary on books I have read, am currently reading, or would like to read.The Next Fifty Years- May 25, 2002 "What Lies Ahead As part of this month's subscription, I bought The Next Fifty Years : Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century from Audible. I thought it sounded interesting, and maybe you will, too. It's an edited volume of speculative essays by 25 scientists. One strange thing is that Amazon has incorporated Audible's titles into their system, so you can order the MP3 version, but yet it doesn't show up for this title. Weird." I was this (pinching finger to...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/2002/05/24.html#a1990 A New Kind of Science- May 23, 2002 >>> Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science discusses the universe as a manifestation of cellular automata. (That is, all the complexity of the Universe, according to Wolfram, is generated from very simple rules along lines similar to Conway's Game of Life.) This review of ANKOS by Ray Kurzweil is a fascinating read in itself, and a lot shorter than ANKOS's 1,200 pages. <<< Gary Robinson's Rants This is sort of the same thing that Ubiquity by Mark Buchanan...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100364/categories/books/2002/05/22.html#a296 Scribner: Let Us Listen to Steven Johnson's book- May 21, 2002 I added my name to "jenny" 's petition. The book is definitely worth reading, in any format and I hope to own a copy of my own at some point.http://www.petitiononline.com/emrgence/petition.html KurzweilAI.net- May 19, 2002 Reflections on Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" Kurzweil coments on this interesting sounding book. Adding it to my To Read list, but at 1100+ pages and with summer coming, reading may be come someting more of a luxury.http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0464.html (Untitled)- May 12, 2002 The Filming of Philip K. Dick (Slate via Memo To Myself) Interesting discussion of Dick's works that have been turned in to films and how they have translated from literature to film. A brief mention of the upcoming Spielberg directed Miority Report starring Tom Cruise is also made.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100364/categories/books/2002/05/12.html#a277 Emergence- May 6, 2002 "It's a fascinating book, and the topics are woven together beautifully. I get the feeling that Johnson did thorough research, planned out the entire structure of the book, but then wrote many sections straight through without stopping to edit -- it flows with a rhythm and pace that makes for an easy read." via manton.org This book gives you the feeling of sitting with the author as he reads these related essays.http://www.manton.org/2002/05/03.html (Untitled)- May 3, 2002 "Are you the kind of person who presses the "door close" button in the lift, to make it go that little bit faster I certainly am. If you are, you might enjoy James' Gleick's Faster buy it from Amazon. link email comment 17 " via not.so.soft &187; life.unfolding This is the second BloggerPro site today that I haven't been able link to. Must be something up with the 'perma-link' rendering. I've manually cut-n-pasted this quick quote from not.so.soft on Gleick's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100364/categories/books/2002/05/02.html#a264 Upgrade due for 'talking books'- May 2, 2002 ""Digital technology used in cameras, cell phones and MP3 players will soon make the written word more accessible to the blind, visually impaired and physically handicapped...Karen A. Keninger of the Iowa Regional Library in Des Moines looks forward to the leap forward, both as a service provider and user. "As a blind person, I'm really excited about it because I'll be able to navigate a book a lot easier," she said."" I like the part about the digital audio player going through the wash...and..http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/more/MGBPSKGJO0D.html A Kingdom Space: global blog- May 1, 2002 "this is an organic living example of "emergence theory" becoming a reality in the global church." Karen wraps "Emergence" around religion...hmmmhttp://net.artax.cz/kingdom/2002_04_21_archives#85034977 |