MachineMachine /stream - tagged with books https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[The best nonfiction tech books of all time]]> https://www.theverge.com/c/23771068/best-tech-books-nonfiction-recommendations

Not only does Ullman tell us what it was like to be an engineer during the dot-com bubble, but she does it in prose that many professional writers envy.

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Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:34:18 -0700 https://www.theverge.com/c/23771068/best-tech-books-nonfiction-recommendations
<![CDATA[Collapse of Civilization reading list]]> https://reddit.com/r/collapse/w/books

This is a list of books on and related to collapse broken down by various categories.

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Mon, 21 Sep 2020 05:59:41 -0700 https://reddit.com/r/collapse/w/books
<![CDATA[Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public | Internet Archive Blogs]]> http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

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Thu, 26 Mar 2020 05:21:25 -0700 http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/
<![CDATA[The ancient Greeks warned us about AI: Chips with Everything podcast | Technology | The Guardian]]> https://huffduffer.com/therourke/509756

Author Adrienne Mayor discusses the myths that contained the first blueprints for artificial intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/nov/02/the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-ai-chips-with-everything-podcast

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Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:42:48 -0700 https://huffduffer.com/therourke/509756
<![CDATA[list: food ethics books]]> https://www.facebook.com/danielrourke/posts/10160454811340052

Good books about food and ethics?

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Thu, 14 Jun 2018 04:42:25 -0700 https://www.facebook.com/danielrourke/posts/10160454811340052
<![CDATA[Amia Srinivasan reviews ‘Other Minds’ by Peter Godfrey-Smith and ‘The Soul of an Octopus’ by Sy Montgomery · LRB 7 September 2017]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker

In 1815, 15 years before he made his most famous print, The Great Wave, Hokusai published three volumes of erotic art. In one of them there is a woodcut print known in English as ‘The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife’ and in Japanese as ‘Tako to ama’, ‘Octopus and Shell Diver’.

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Wed, 06 Sep 2017 03:24:11 -0700 https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker
<![CDATA[Books after the Death of the Book | Public Books]]> http://www.publicbooks.org/books-after-the-death-of-the-book/

Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach.

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Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:54:32 -0700 http://www.publicbooks.org/books-after-the-death-of-the-book/
<![CDATA[Dorothy Santos, UC Santa Cruz // The Book as Cartography]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFnOACSrELw

The Book as Cartography: The Materialization of Digital and Imagined Spaces

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Fri, 09 Dec 2016 11:00:32 -0800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFnOACSrELw
<![CDATA[In the Name of Humanity | Limn]]> http://limn.it/in-the-name-of-humanity/

The total archive is already here, Balázs Bodó finds it hidden in the shadows and run by pirates. As I write this in August 2015, we are in the middle of one of the worst refugee crises in modern Western history.

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Sun, 06 Mar 2016 07:20:02 -0800 http://limn.it/in-the-name-of-humanity/
<![CDATA[Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical / Boing Boing]]> https://boingboing.net/2016/01/12/keep-your-scythe-the-real-gre.html

"Radical ecology" has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture and mass production for a pastoral low-tech lifestyle.

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Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:32:10 -0800 https://boingboing.net/2016/01/12/keep-your-scythe-the-real-gre.html
<![CDATA[A Brief History of Books That Do Not Exist | Literary Hub]]> http://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-books-that-do-not-exist/

I love books that exist almost as much as I love books that don’t exist. So I have written some books, The Seas, The Invention of Everything Else and Mr. Splitfoot, but more importantly I have not written many, many more books.

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Sat, 09 Jan 2016 08:10:49 -0800 http://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-books-that-do-not-exist/
<![CDATA[The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal]]> https://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/nov/17/the-block-is-the-successor-to-the-book-a-publishing-proposal/

In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block is the successor of the book. Cryptographically bound, the block is given a name that is directly derived from its content. In this way it is made tamper-proof and resistant to censorship. We see this proposal as a small contribution to the internet renaissance.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:45:41 -0800 https://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/nov/17/the-block-is-the-successor-to-the-book-a-publishing-proposal/
<![CDATA[A welcome dose of environmental optimism - environment - 04 July 2015 - New Scientist]]> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730280.500-a-welcome-dose-of-environmental-optimism.html?cmpid=SOC%25257CNSNS%25257C2015-GLOBAL-hoot

From rainforest revival and green technology to social changes, the age of humans is not necessarily a one-way ticket to eco-disaster, argue three new books Will more of the world's cities share Singapore's future vision of itself? (Image: Suzanne Lee/SGIA/Panos Pictures) OPTIMISM is in the air.

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Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:22:35 -0700 http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730280.500-a-welcome-dose-of-environmental-optimism.html?cmpid=SOC%25257CNSNS%25257C2015-GLOBAL-hoot
<![CDATA[Weird realism: John Gray on the moral universe of H P Lovecraft]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/weird-realism-john-gray-moral-universe-h-p-lovecraft

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:57:52 -0700 http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/10/weird-realism-john-gray-moral-universe-h-p-lovecraft
<![CDATA[books - Futurology]]> http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/wiki/books

Welcome to r/Futurology, a subreddit devoted to speculation about the future through discussions, images, videos, art, gifs, and tedtalks about technology, civilization, foresight, futurology, futurism, existential risk reduction, space colonization, A.I.

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Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:48:03 -0800 http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/wiki/books
<![CDATA[Dark Arts | The Verge]]> http://www.theverge.com/culture/2014/3/19/5475122/dark-arts-tumblr-cyberpunk-renaissance

So even though cyberpunk may be dead, the people who grew up on Gibson’s writing, Akira, and Blade Runner are still around.

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Sat, 22 Nov 2014 05:24:00 -0800 http://www.theverge.com/culture/2014/3/19/5475122/dark-arts-tumblr-cyberpunk-renaissance
<![CDATA[Japanese science fiction award opens entries to aliens and computers | Books | The Guardian]]> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/24/japanese-science-fiction-award-aliens-computers-hoshi-prize-shinichi

Last week, the Australian writer Richard Flanagan stalked on to the stage wearing a broad grin, kissed the Duchess of Cornwall and grasped the 2014 Man Booker prize.

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Sat, 22 Nov 2014 05:23:52 -0800 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/24/japanese-science-fiction-award-aliens-computers-hoshi-prize-shinichi
<![CDATA[Space in the Tropics "ch01"]]> http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt9b69q8p7;chunk.id=ch01;doc.view=print

Thence emerged the story of Robinson, in the way a dream might occur. When this dream was published, however, all Europe realized that it had been dreaming it.. They would make their islands in their own image.

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Sat, 22 Nov 2014 05:23:51 -0800 http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt9b69q8p7;chunk.id=ch01;doc.view=print
<![CDATA[The novel is dead (this time it's for real) | Books | The Guardian]]> http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/will-self-novel-dead-literary-fiction?CMP=fb_gu

If you happen to be a writer, one of the great benisons of having children is that your personal culture-mine is equipped with its own canaries.

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Fri, 02 May 2014 09:56:22 -0700 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/will-self-novel-dead-literary-fiction?CMP=fb_gu
<![CDATA[Rhizome | Using, Using, Used]]> http://rhizome.org/editorial/2010/feb/24/using-using-used/

Within the pages of Digital Folklore Reader, Olia Lialina, one of the book's editors, refers to a claim by the social media researcher Danah Boyd, that some American teenagers identify as Facebook and others as MySpace-preferring a conformist and clean interface persona, or a rebellious and visually

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