ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
Roger Schank
Founder, chair, and CTO, Cognitive Arts
A Mathematician's Apology, by Godfrey H. Hardy Hardy was one of the great mathematicians of his time, and he apologizes for having led a useless life as an academic. Of course, he's really just kidding. For me, this gets at the essence of the university, of good education. The only good reason to learn anything is because you love it, because you think it's beautiful - not because it will appear on a standardized test. Meantime, I also wonder if I'm at the same stage as Hardy when he wrote this: past my most inventive phase, having done my best work in my twenties, now looking back."
Marc Rotenberg
Executive director, Electronic Privacy Information Center
P.E.A.C.E.: A Novel of Police Terror, by Guy Holmes I picked this up when the story broke that police were using real-time face recognition to follow fans at the Super Bowl. In the book, the NYPD installs the P.E.A.C.E. surveillance system so that families can safely play in Central Park and Times Square - but technology that empowers can also restrict and control. I won't give the details away, but when a cop and a reporter realize the system is dangerously flawed, P.E.A.C.E. is turned against the whistle-blowers in a deadly chase through New York. You see how an Orwellian nightmare can be built from tools that are just now becoming available."
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