ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
John Diaz
Senior VP for industry relations, MP3.com
Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls, by Robert Rankin "It's 20,000 years in the future, and scientists realize it's the end of time, so they start traveling back. One comes into our era and saves the lives of rock stars for fun, but this changes history: The Beatles are playing concerts as octogenarians, while Richard Branson is king of England and Virgin is the British government. The most popular band is called Gandhi's Hairdryer. They have a lead singer whose voice actually heals people, but there's a plot to assassinate her. I've worked with a lot of dead rock stars - Hendrix, Lennon, Morrison - and Rankin's characterizations ring true, especially the way he shows aging stars losing their grasp on reality."
Lev Manovich
Author, The Language of New Media
Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization, by Hans Ibelings "Ibelings defines Supermodernism as a sort of post-postmodernism, a tech-inspired aesthetic movement that reacts against heavy-handed, '80s-era pomo and deconstruction, and adopts the philosophy of computer product design. Structures appear portable and therefore disconnected from their surroundings. As with computers, all the detail is inside, while exteriors are neutral and unassuming - think Apple's PowerBook G4. Two striking examples of this architectural sensibility are Dominique Perrault's inscrutable Centre Technique du Livre, in Bussy-Saint-Georges, and Jean Nouvel's nearly invisible Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, in Paris."
STREET CRED
Springboard: Exploring the Digital Age
Nestler Synthese CAD
Fab Force SK1 Fins
Free Flight: From Airline Hell to a New Age of Travel, by James Fallows
Spaceman
Sharpeworld
ThinkPad TransNote
ReadMe
Music
Bizarro Comics
Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan
Memory Key, Q., and Thumbdrive
Just Outta Beta
Cosmonaut Keep, by Ken MacLeod
Postal Auction of Damaged and Unclaimed Goods
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