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Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies. New York: Modern Library, 2000.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
One of the most important articles about the philosophy of mind is titled ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
One way or another, the noise had to be preserved, because without it, evolution would grind to a halt.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Although Nelson was polite, charming, and smooth, I was too slow for his fast talk. But I got an aha! from his marvelous notion of hypertext. He was certain that every document in the world should be a footnote to some other document, and computers could make the links between them visible and permanent. This was a new idea at the time. But that wa
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
There is a caution here, however: if a little of something is good, more is not always better.
David Pesek • How We Heal
The thing we call culture is always an aggregation of individual human behaviors, and if taste were the mere product of random idiosyncrasies and irrational psychologies, culture would display no patterns, only noise. The fact that preferences in these disparate fields follow a similar rhythm of change suggests there must be universal principles of
... See moreW. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
Johnson, George. “Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale.” New York Times, January 12, 1999.