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The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson |
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 The Slight Edge - Secret to a $uccessful Life - by Jeff Olson
This is a nice quick read (166 pages). The point of the book is that success comes via the many daily small decisions that we make.
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 What might a graduation speech in 2020 look like?
This video is centered around a high school called Arapaho in Colorado, very education oriented.
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The Twilight of American Culture |
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The Twilight of American Culture - by Morris Berman (2000,2006)
(Neal read apprroximately September 2007).
This review is still in progress, a lot to process here!
For now, I have include several quotes.
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Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything |
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Neal read this book approximately April 2007.
Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
"In the past, collaboration was mostly small scale. It was something that took place among relatives, freinds, and associates in households, communities, and workplaces...Today the tables are turning... In the forthcoming pages of this book, we describe seven unique forms of peer production that ar emaking the economy more dynamic and productive".
"Just log on to Wikipedia - a collaboratively created encyclopedia, owned by no one and authored by tens of thousnad of enthusiasts. With five full time employees, it is ten times bigger than the Encylopedia Britannica and roughly the same accuracy."
"A new art and science of collaboration is emerging - we call it 'wikinomics'... Wikinomics is based on four powerful new ideas: openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally.
"For us, the ability to pool the knowledge of millions (if not billions) of users in a self-organizing fashion demonstrates how mass collaboration is turning the new Web into something not complete unlike a global brain."
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The Cathedral and the Bazzar - Eric S Raymond |
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Neal read this book approximately March 2007.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It was first presented by the author at the Linux Kongress on May 27, 1997 and was published as part of a book of the same name in 1999, along with 5 other essays.
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The Spike - by Damien Broderick |
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Neal read this book - approximately October 2007.
Damien Broderick - "The Spike - How are Lives are Being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies"
Written in 2001, "The Spike" proceeded Ray Kurzweil\'s "The Singularity" by approximately 4 years (however Kurzweil had published "The Age of Spiritual Machines" in 1999.
"What\'s special today is that because of hte computer, an undifferentiated intelligence amplifier, our technology has nearly reached \'critical mass\' and is now juggernatuing us around the dance floor at such a pace that we may never be able to stop and catch our breath." (Dr. Gregoy J.E. Rawlins).
"Around 2050, or maybe even 2030, is when a technological Singularity, as it\'s been termed, is expected to erupt. That, at any rate, is the considered opinion of a number of informed if unuusually adventurous scientists. Professor Vinge called this project event "the technological Singularit," something of a mouthful. I call it "the Spike", an upward jab on the chart of chnage, a time of upheaval unprecedented in human history."
"Change in technology and medicine moves off the scale of standard mesaurements: it goes asymptotic, as a mathematician would say. An asymptote is a curve that bends more and more sharply until it is heading almost straight along one of the axes - in this case, up the page into the future."
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The Singularity Is Near - by Ray Kurzweil |
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Neal read this book approximately September 2006.
Here are two quotes from the book to give you the big picture:
"What then is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.... The key underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers are expanding at an exponential pace. Exponential growth is deceptive. It starts out almost imperceptibiliy and then explodes with unexpected fury - unexpected, that is, if one does not take care to follow its trajectory.... We are now in the early stages of this transition."
"There will be no distinction, post-Singularity, between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality."
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