Inspiration List For My To-be-written Books
[11.22.14]
#BookRecommendation
Physical Computing
- When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld (Amazon)
- Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld
- The Physics of Information Technology (Cambridge Series on Information and the Natural Sciences) by Professor Neil Gershenfeld (Amazon)
- Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing by Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman
- Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose (Amazon) (Published: July 15, 2014)

Artificial Intelligence; Neuroscience
-
How to create a Mind – Ray Kurzweil
-
On Intelligence – Jeff Hawkins
-
How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
Neuroscience
-
The man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
-
Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks
-
Hallucinations – Oliver Sacks
-
Consciousness – Antonio Damasio
-
The Second Nature – Gerald Edelman
-
How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
Linguistics; Cognitive Science
-
The Language Instinct – Steven Pinker
Expertise; Complexity; Human Organization; Managing Complexity
-
The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande, MD
Future of Technology
-
Abundance – Peter Diamandis, MD
-
The Singularity is near – Ray Kurzweil
-
Physics of the Future – Michio Kaku, PhD
-
The Future – Al Gore
-
The Road Ahead – Bill Gates [1995; “Information Superhighway” which came to be known as the “Internet”, and the “Web” on top of it]
- The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
Technology in Business:
-
Business @ The Speed of Thought – Bill Gates
Brain Sciences
Economics; Behavioral Economics
-
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Creativity; Process of Inventions & Discoveries
-
Imagine – Jonah Lehrer
Human Decision Making
-
How we decide – Jonah Lehrer
-
Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
-
Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahnemann; PhD [Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Finance]