ON THE BOOKSHELVES OF THE DIGERATI
Paul Sagan
President of Akamai Technologies
A Bend in the River, by V. S. Naipaul This book examines the friction between traditional cultures and the modern world, and how that conflict creates flash points for hatred and violence. It's particularly striking today as we try to understand the recent attacks and the terrorists' roots in the third world. Last summer, I visited Africa and was struck by the beauty of the land and the warmth of the people. A Bend in the River captures that aesthetic as it tells a powerful story of how a civilized order can crash when weakened by corruption and demagoguery."
Geoffrey Nunberg
Principal scientist for Xerox PARC, NPR commentator, and author of The Way We Talk Now
The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work, by Joanne B. Ciulla Ciulla's book considers the historical context and the current crisis surrounding the meaning of work - particularly for knowledge workers. An influx of new language aimed at inflating the importance of employment, much of it borrowed from New Age psychology or Star Wars (e.g., "mission," "vision statements," "issues"), doesn't really address the crisis. There's something enormously condescending about that language - it implies that ordinary people who see their compensation and job security eroding can be bought off with purely symbolic maneuvers. Ciulla suggests that we have to rethink work from the bottom up."
STREET CRED
RND#
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, by Rodney A. Brooks
Caveo Anti-Theft PC Card
Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places, by Derek M. Powazek
Command & Conquer Renegade
Samsung SCH-N150
Entourage X
ReadMe
Music
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold, by Merritt Ierley
Compact Theater
TinyApps.org
US Design: 1975-2000
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