Books

Currently reading:

  • The Birth of the Mind
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • The Bone Clocks
  • Aegypt
  • Summa Technologiae

Recently read:

  • From Bacteria to Bach and Back
  • How Emotions are Made
  • Understanding Media – Marshall McLuhan
  • Consciousness and The Brain
  • WTF – What’s The Future And Why It’s Up To Us
  • Children of Time
  • Pattern Recognition
  • The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
  • Count Zero
  • The Fractal Prince
  • Little, Big
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • Appleseed – John Clute
  • Light – M. John Harrison
  • Work Rules! – Laszlo Bock
  • The Rise of Endymion
  • Endymion
  • The Decline and Fall of IBM
  • Hyperion
  • The Fall of Hyperion
  • How Google Works
  • Against the Smart City – Adam Greenfield
  • The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things – Bruce Sterling
  • Steal like an Artist
  • Quantum Thief

The in-tray:

  • On Intelligence
  • The Number Sense
  • Cybernetics
  • The Poetics of Space
  • Invisible Cities
  • Freedom Evolves – Daniel Dennett
  • I Have America Surrounded
  • The Conscious Mind – In Search of a Fundamental Theory

Selected read and recommended:

  • American Gods
  • The Cyberiad
  • Everyware – Adam Greenfield
  • The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
  • The Brandy of the Damned
  • Novelty Waves
  • 1Q84
  • Only Forward
  • Lessons Learned in Software Testing
  • Vurt
  • A Hatful of Sky
  • Snow Crash
  • Mirror Worlds

2 thoughts on “Books”

  1. Hello, Ian. Sorry that i write about mqtt to reply form… I noticed that you are the author MQTT library. I am trying to implement MQTT service to my project, but I have some problems. Would you be willing me advice about some things? Thanks. Alex.

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