CSCI 494: Books for Review
Last modified: Wed Feb 10 14:44:01 CST 2010
Listed here you will find the books that have been selected this semester,
plus others of which I am aware (many of which have been reviewed by students
in previous semesters).
In the following lists, * indicates books that I have a copy of in
my office,
@ those that
are listed as being in the college
library.
Selected:
- @*Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis, Blown to Bits: Your Life,
Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
- Stephen Garrett
- @*Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
- Christopher McClatchey
- @*Steve Talbott, The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst
- Chet Mancini
Other books that have been done recently:
- @*Rodney Brooks, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
- @*Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
- @*Lawrence Lessig, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace
- @*Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
- @*Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
Highly recommended books:
- @Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
- @*Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information
Other books that might be suitable, but have not been reviewed:
- Avi Rubin, Brave New Ballot
- @Sherry Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
The following might be a good choice, but I've blacklisted it (again)
for this year:
- @*Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
These rated OK, but not outstanding:
- @*J. David Bolter, Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age
- Andy Clark, Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
- @Charles Jonscher, The Evolution of Wired Life: From the
Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip-How Information Technologies Change
Our World
- @*Gregory Rawlins, Slaves of the Machine: The Quickening of Computer Technology
- Douglas Robertson, The New Renaissance: Computers and the Next Level of Civilization
- @Gene Rochlin, Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization
- Andrew L. Shapiro, The Control Revolution: How the Internet
is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know
These have been done previously, but were judged particularly weak choices:
- @*Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
- @Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital
- Pekka Himanen and Linus Torvalds, The Hacker Ethic
- @Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway
You can easily find lots of other potentially interesting books by
searching book reviews.
