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| last edited by BillSeitz on Nov 7, 2008 2:34 pm |
Want to provide a medium-length reading list for others to follow along into my Worldview Roadmap.
I'm horrified at the thought of how much I'm leaving out.
Robert Anton Wilson: pretty much all
Neal Stephenson: pretty much all
H L Mencken: Chrestomathy
David Brin: Earth; Marc Stiegler: [Earth Web]
L Neil Smith: [Probability Broach]
James Gleick's Chaos or Kevin Kelly's [Fast Cheap And Out Of Control]
Michael Crichton: [Jurassic Park] (much better than movie at expressing ways that complex systems go wrong)
Roger Schank Coloring Outside The Lines and/or John Taylor Gatto A [Different Kind Of Teacher]
Ray Oldenburg: Great Good Place
James Howard Kunstler: [Home From Nowhere]
Ernesto Sirolli: [Ripples From The Zambezi]
[THWhite]: The [Once And Future King]
Douglas Hofstadter: Godel Escher Bach
Douglas Adams: [Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy]
Rudy Rucker: ???
[Christopher Stasheff]: [Escape Velocity]
Vernor Vinge: [Across Realtime]
Hunter S Thompson: [Great Shark Hunt] collection
Marquis De Sade: ???
Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language
[Edwin Abbott]: [Flat Land]/[Sphere Land]
Robert Nozick: [Anarchy State And Utopia]
Frederic Bastiat: The Law (maybe not the best choice for someone starting out, but it was what I ran across at the right time and found just the right tone, etc.)
Robert Hooke's [Micro Graphia]?
Great books that have maybe less of a worldview aspect
Aldous Huxley: [Point Counter Point]
Umberto Eco: The [Name Of The Rose]
Samuel Shem: The [House Of God]
[Gregory Mc Donald]: the Flynn mysteries
Tom Peters: ???
Geoffrey Moore: Crossing The Chasm
approaches to exposing people to an Enlighten Ment World View
(see Exposing Young Kids To Science)
visual books
like Robert Hooke's [Micro Graphia]
??
engaging fiction
simulation/animation of ??? like z2004-12-09- Nanotech Animation
Live Performance; Ms Power Point
short movie
comedy
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