[11.22.14]

1. When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld (Amazon)
2. Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfeld 
3. The Physics of Information Technology (Cambridge Series on Information and the Natural Sciences) by Professor Neil Gershenfeld (Amazon) 
4. Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing by Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman
5. Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose (Amazon) (Published: July 15, 2014)

 

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence; Neuroscience

1. How to create a Mind – Ray Kurzweil
2. On Intelligence – Jeff Hawkins
3. How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker

7. An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks (Amazon)
8. The man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks
9. Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks
10. Hallucinations – Oliver Sacks
11. Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain by Antonio Damasio
12. Consciousness – Antonio Damasio
13. The Second Nature – Gerald Edelman
14. How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker

17. The Language Instinct – Steven Pinker

18. The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande, MD

19. Abundance – Peter Diamandis, MD
20. The Singularity is near – Ray Kurzweil
21. Physics of the Future – Michio Kaku, PhD
22. The Future – Al Gore
23. The Road Ahead – Bill Gates [1995; “Information Superhighway” which came to be known as the “Internet”, and the “Web” on top of it]
24. The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen

25. The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations by Vinnie Mirchandani
26. Business @ The Speed of Thought – Bill Gates

Brain Sciences

28. Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

29. Imagine – Jonah Lehrer

32. How we decide – Jonah Lehrer
33. Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
34. Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahnemann; PhD [Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Finance]