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DNA Sequencing, Memory, Communications, the Internet, and Miniaturization

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

Michael Talbot’s intriguing book, The Holographic Universe, describes how the Hawaiian shamans or kahunas believe that thoughts directly affect how the future unfolds.

Amy L. Lansky PhD • Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within

“Well, Mandelbrot found a remarkable thing with his geometric tools. He found that things looked almost identical at different scales.”

Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel

The revolutions in biotech and infotech will give us control of the world inside us and will enable us to engineer and manufacture life.

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Physicists have long noted that their descriptions of the universe were not only accurate and precise, but also seemed to have an intrinsic, even surprising beauty. Wilczek aims to convince us that even if we cannot do physics, we can be amazed and inspired by this beauty, no differently from how we respond to works of art and music.

Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation

In physics, you identify clues that reveal fundamental truths. You use those clues to build models that help explain the world around you.

Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

In this book I argue that all progress, both theoretical and practical, has resulted from a single human activity: the quest for what I call good explanations. Though this quest is uniquely human, its effectiveness is also a fundamental fact about reality at the most impersonal, cosmic level – namely that it conforms to universal laws of nature tha... See more