Books Recommended by Stewart Brand
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Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Source: "A fundamental interest is gamification – thinking of things in game terms and designing things in gaming terms is one of the profound things that civilization has done for a very long time." - Stewart Brand
Machines of Loving Grace
The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
John Markoff
Source: "Basically spells out the ongoing debate between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation – I.A. and A.I." - Stewart Brand
1 recommender
Time Travel
A History
James Gleick
Source: "Some of the most cogent thinking about time that I think we’ve seen in a long time." - Stewart Brand
1 recommender
Dune (6 books)
Frank Herbert
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
A History of Civilizations
Fernand Braudel
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
The Way Life Works
The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to How Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along
Mahlon Hoagland
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
The Pattern On The Stone
The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work
Danny Hillis
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
Culture (10 books)
Iain M. Banks
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
5 recommenders
Imagined Worlds
Freeman Dyson
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
A Pattern Language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Christopher Alexander
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
George Dyson
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
Foundation (7 books)
Isaac Asimov
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this series on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
The Map Book
Peter Barber
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
The Long Summer
How Climate Changed Civilization
Brian Fagan
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
Medieval Civilization
400-1500
Jacques Le Goff
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
The Oxford Shakespeare
The Complete Works
William Shakespeare
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
The Future of Life
Edward O. Wilson
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
The Coming Population Crash
and Our Planet's Surprising Future
Fred Pearce
Source: Stewart Brand recommended this book on his "Selected Books for the Manual for Civilization" blog post.
1 recommender
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