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; Cognitive Sciences
- The Society of Mind [Paperback] by Marvin Minsky (Amazon)
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The Emotion Machine – Marvin Minsky
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How to create a Mind – Ray Kurzweil
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On Intelligence – Jeff Hawkins
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How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
Education; Neuroscience; Psychology; Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
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Phantoms in the Brain – V S Ramachandran
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The Tell Tale Brain – V S Ramachandran
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The man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
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Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks
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Hallucinations – Oliver Sacks
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Consciousness – Antonio Damasio
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The Second Nature – Gerald Edelman
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How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
Linguistics; Cognitive Science
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The Language Instinct – Steven Pinker
Expertise; Complexity; Human Organization; Managing Complexity
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The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande, MD
Future of Technology
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Abundance – Peter Diamandis, MD
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The Singularity is near – Ray Kurzweil
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Physics of the Future – Michio Kaku, PhD
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The Future – Al Gore
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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:
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Business @ The Speed of Thought – Bill Gates
Brain Sciences
Economics; Behavioral Economics
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Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Creativity; Process of Inventions & Discoveries
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Imagine – Jonah Lehrer
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
Memory; Expertise
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Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
Marketing; Business; Psychology
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Influence – Robert Cialdini, PhD
Human Decision Making
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How we decide – Jonah Lehrer
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Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
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Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahnemann; PhD [Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Finance]
MetaCognition; Critical Thinking; Creativity
- How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya
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The Thinker’s Way – John Chaffee, PhD [Critical Thinking; Philosopher’s Tools]
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Think Like A Champ – Donald Trump [Success in Business and Life]
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Think Like A Freak – Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J Levitin (Amazon)
