Brygg's readings snippets
The following snippets are bits of text I've found worth typing in to share
with friends.
These are for ready reference; please respect the authors'
copyrights,
and feel encouraged to read / purchase the entire texts.
Brygg / ullmer@media.mit.edu
Non-fiction:
John Frazer, An Evolutionary Architecture (web version):
the electronic craftsman
James Watson, The Double Helix:
the role of physical models in DNA's
discovery
Freeman Dyson, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet:
tools, not just ideas; and craft
Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe:
Clades and clones (same + a tad
of Brygg's annotations)
Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe: The
green and the gray
Neil Gershenfeld, When Things Start to Think:
The Personal Fabricator
Don Lancaster, TV Typewriter Cookbook: Introduction
Science fiction:
Dan Simmons, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion: Farcaster
architectures and the River Tethys
William Gibson, Count Zero: Wintermute's
box-poems
William Gibson, Neuromancer: The
Sprawl, through the Matrix; bejeweled head-terminal
Melissa Scott, Dreamships: Architectural
dataglyphs meet wearables and beyond
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