On The Bookshelves Of The Digerati
Will Wright
Chief game designer for Maxis and creator of The Sims and SimCity
The Life of the Cosmos, by Lee Smolin "I'm currently working on a universe simulation game and have been reading a lot on recent discoveries about our galaxy, stellar processes, and astrophysics. Most science books are camouflaged in technical jargon - they sound deadly boring and dry - but Smolin comes across more like Richard Dawkins or Carl Sagan, and he makes it all interesting in much the same way that we'll need to in the game."
Patrick Byrne
Founder and CEO of Overstock.com
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, by Thomas Sowell "This book poses the question, 'Why do people line up so consistently on opposite sides of the fence on certain issues?' Sowell argues that there must be different assumptions underlying the views of both camps. He outlines the central arguments of these worldviews, one an unconstrained vision of mankind (man can be perfected, information centralized, and society engineered) and the other a constrained vision (mankind is base, information is too costly to centralize, and outcomes cannot be engineered). From experience, I think that data is costly to centralize and conclude that we should focus on designing social processes, not outcomes."
STREET CRED
Medal of Honor Frontline
Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, by John Cassidy
Dictionaraoke
Space Station
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Gamma-Scout
Grip: The Strange World of Men, by Gilbert Hernandez
ReadMe
Music
Herdy Gerdy
Teknolust
LitterFree
Pixelsurgeon.com
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, by Todd Gitlin
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