Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
2012-09-16

Book Review 72: Ready Player One

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Going outside is highly overrated. -Anorak’s Almanac, Chapter 17, Verse 32 One day last fall, I glanced over at my Twitter feed a...
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2012-07-30

Book Review 71: A Dirty Job

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"Sometimes," he said to Lazarus, the steadfast golden retriever, "a man must muster all of his courage to simply sit still...
2012-07-06

Book Review 70: Blood Sucking Fiends

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‘I’ve seen him,” the Emperor whispered. “It’s a vampire.” Tommy recoiled as if he’d been spit on. “A vampire florist?” ‘Well, once yo...
2012-04-24

Book Review 69: DIY U -- Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

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There are two basic options the way I see it: fundamentally change the way higher education is delivered, or resign ourselves to never havin...
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2012-04-17

Book Review 68: Rapture of the Geeks

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This book is about the future of technology and the evolution, coevolution, and possible merger of humans and computers. Some futurists and ...
2012-04-10

Book Review 67: The Dark River

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Hollis handed Kevin the two hundred dollars and got up from the table. "Do a good job on this and I'll give you a bonus. Who knows?...
2012-01-22

Book Review 66: iWoz: How I invented the personal computer, co-founded Apple, and had fun doing it

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I didn’t realize it at the time, but that day, Sunday, June 29, 1975, was pivotal. It was the first time in history anyone had typed a chara...
2012-01-20

Book Review 65: Captain’s Log: William Shatner’s Personal Account of the Making of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as told by Lisabeth Shatner

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“I guess the way I work as an actor -- I say ‘I guess’ because I don’t consciously have a methodology -- is to ask, ‘How entertaining can th...