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Never try to start from the beginning and work to the end. Write what you can when you think of it, and edit it later.
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In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
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2013
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Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation
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2015
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Principles of Network and System Administration
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2000
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Slogans: The end of sympathy
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Smart Spacetime: How information challenges our ideas about space, time, and process
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Analytical Network and System Administration: Managing Human-Computer Networks
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2004
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Classical Covariant Fields (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics) (Volume 0)
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1998
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The Gnu C Programming Tutorial (Gnu Software Manuals Series)
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The Road Ahead
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2007
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Re-imagining Spacetime -- Is Physics only about Physics?
Physics is the study of stuff that happens---or, at least,
that's how it began. As its reputation deepened and its cultural
baggage expanded, it became---like every other
specialization---pickled in its own special culture and norms, as
the preserve of what physicists consider their own territory. But physics
is useful in other disciplines too: Information Technology, for one.
Should physicists have the Read more of this blog post »
that's how it began. As its reputation deepened and its cultural
baggage expanded, it became---like every other
specialization---pickled in its own special culture and norms, as
the preserve of what physicists consider their own territory. But physics
is useful in other disciplines too: Information Technology, for one.
Should physicists have the Read more of this blog post »
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"I came across this book through a book club recommendation, and I’m honestly surprised more people are not talking about it. Slogans: The End of Sympathy feels incredibly relevant even though it was written years ago. Mark Burgess paints a chilling p"
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"I discovered this novel from a book club discussion and decided to give it a chance. What stood out most was how accurately the author predicted many aspects of modern society—social media addiction, political influence through technology, and the co"
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"Came across this book through a book club and ended up completely hooked. The world-building is impressive, but what makes the story powerful is how believable it feels. The idea of corporations and governments using technology to shape behavior no l"
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"I found this book through a book club recommendation and it turned out to be one of the most thought-provoking reads I’ve had in a long time. The themes of control, propaganda, and social fragmentation are explored in such a smart and realistic way. "
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“We shall have to stop thinking of technology as something invulnerable that is merely used by humans, and view it as part of a greater cybernetic ecology all around us. The key distinction in an environment is not between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’, but between semantic and dynamic: intention and behaviour. Biology has already drawn these lines, and through us, it will integrate the inanimate with the animate in information systems, until we no longer see a pertinent difference between the two.”
― In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
― In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
“We also use that limitation purposely as a tool to understand things, to form the illusion of mastery and control over a limited scale of things, because by being able to isolate only a part of the world, we reduce a hopeless problem to a manageable one.”
― In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
― In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
“We suffer sometimes from the hubris of believing that control is a matter of applying sufficient force, or a sufficiently detailed set of instructions.”
― In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
― In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
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I have spent a harrowing week correcting crowdsourced typos in Smart Spacetime. It's so hard to get reviewers and copy editors for my material, but with some excellent help a new version has been upoaded. Kindle updates are free -- paper updates can be ordered, and I'll try to get a coupon code as a thank you to early buyers.
Physics is largely about understanding processes by counting things. Newton's laws provide an ingenious recipe for generating stories about processes on a certain scale, using a construction that counts beans called "energy". Could we use a similar approach in other disciplines?