Book Notes

  1. Technology, Infrastructure, and Innovation

    The history and present of the digital world.

    1. A History of Modern Computing, Ceruzzi

    2. How the Internet Became Commercial, Greenstein

    3. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, Wallace, Ericksson

    4. In the Beginning… Was the Command Line, Stephenson

    5. The Humane Interface, Raskin

    6. Dogfight, Vogelstein

    7. Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove

    8. Transforming Nokia, Siilasmaa

    9. Weaving the Web, Berners-Lee

    10. Losing the Signal, McNish, Silcoff

    11. The Future of the Internet, Zittrain

    12. Netscape Time, Clark

    13. Troublemakers, Berlin

    14. Dealers of Lightning, Hiltzik

    15. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Levy

    16. Computer Wars, Ferguson, Morris

    17. The HP Phenomenon, House, Prince

    18. A Mighty Ferment: Britain in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850, Snodin

    19. Hackers and Painters, Graham

    20. Genetech, Smith Hughes

    21. A History of the Future, Harris

    22. Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders, Carlton

    23. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Hafner, Lyon

    24. The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond

    25. The Nature of Technology, Arthur

  2. Artificial Intelligence, Minds, and Meaning

    This cluster explores what intelligence is and how we have, are, and could go about building it.

    1. Connectionist Symbol Processing, Hinton

    2. Reasoning About Change, Shoham

    3. What Is Intelligence, Khalfa

    4. Understanding Computers and Cognition, Winograd, Flores

    5. Mind Children, Moravec

    6. Metarepresentations, Sperber

    7. Using Language, Clark

    8. Machiavellian Intelligence, Byrne, Whitten

    9. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, Lovelock

    10. Languages of the Mind, Jackendoff

    11. Diversity and Complexity, Page

    12. The Human Network, Jackson

    13. Probably Approximately Correct, Valiant

    14. Why Information Grows, Hidalgo

    15. Human Machine Reconfigurations, Suchman

    16. Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI, Levesque

  3. Social and Economic Networks

    This cluster follows incentives, how markets work, how value is created, and who gets to shape the game.

    1. The Wealth of Networks, Benkler

    2. Signals and Boundaries, Holland

    3. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, Perez

    4. Adaptive Markets, Lo

    5. Social and Economic Networks, Jackson

    6. Shakespeare’s Rome, Cantor

    7. The Power Law, Mallaby

    8. Creative Capital, Ante

    9. Done Deals, Gupta

    10. eBoys, Stross

    11. Founders at Work, Livingston

    12. The Man who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, Zuckerman

    13. A Man for All Markets, Thorp

    14. Engines that Move Markets, Nairn

    15. The Black Swan, Taleb

    16. The (Mis)Behavior of Markets, Mandelbrot, Hudson

    17. Phishing for Phools, Akerloff, Shiller

    18. Narrative and Numbers, Damodaran

    19. Network Propaganda, Benkler, Faris, Roberts

  4. Fiction, Speculative Futures, and Identity

    This cluster explores ourselves and our infinite possible paths. Focused on human empathy.

    1. Configuring the Networked Self, Cohen

    2. How we Became Posthuman, Hayles

    3. Babel 17, Delany

    4. Neuromancer, Gibson

    5. Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon

    6. The Embodied Mind, Varela, Thompson, Rosch

    7. Player Piano, Vonnegut

    8. Constructing Postmodernism, McHale

    9. Ubik, PKD

    10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, PKD

    11. We, Zamyatin

    12. True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, Vinge

    13. Terminal Identity, Bukatman

    14. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson

    15. Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture, Freer

    16. The Complete Cosmicomics, Calvino

    17. Creature and Creator, Cantor

    18. Bodies in Technology, Idhe

    19. The Maniac, Labatut

    20. Life on Screen, Turkle

    21. Psychopolitics, Han