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There are plenty of books on information theory, and viewing the universe through the lens of information and computation is increasingly popular, but Hidalgo's book is more readable than most.
Eugene Wei • Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day
In 1894, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Michelson proclaimed: “The
Mark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
these exponents fit the expectations of the amorphous settlement model with better than that of a networked one with
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.
Barbara Marx Hubbard • Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
This is what physicist Max Planck (the father of quantum mechanics), Einstein, and others observed: No matter how much you know, there is an infinite amount of chance and randomness in the universe.
John Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
But it is certainly true that modern life requires range, making connections across far-flung domains and ideas. Luria
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time—A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
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As theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking