by KimBoo York | Dec 24, 2017 | Review, Book
Books reviewed: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2006) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (2014) The Economic Singularity: Artificial...
by KimBoo York | Mar 8, 2017 | Review, Book
This time I’ve got three books that I recommend reading in a specific order, from broad-spectrum overview to a discrete, specific event that happened in the summer of 1927. I think reading these books in that order, one after another, gives a very nuanced perspective...
by KimBoo York | Feb 5, 2017 | Review, Book
So here is an interesting trifecta long-read series for your edutainment: 1. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (2005) 2. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore (2006) 3....
by KimBoo York | Aug 22, 2011 | Information Science, Review, Book
Common as Air by Lewis Hyde (2010). Quote: “Simply put, my project has been to enlarge the set of stories that might usefully guide our thinking about the ownership of art and ideas.” (p. 214) Short form: This is not a legal treatise on copyright law. It...
