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Books on technology not by Seth Godin
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1. Neil Postman
TechFasting.com๏Learning how to use technology is easy. (Read: Google) The hard part is learning how it uses us.
๏Start with Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, or The End of Education.
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1. Neil Postman
TechFasting.com๏“What we needed to know about cars--as we need to know about computers, television, and other important technologies--is not how to use them but how they use us.”
๏-The End of Education
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1. Neil Postman
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2. Snow Crash
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2. Snow Crash
๏Dude is a ninja, a hacker, and a pizza delivery boy. Badass on all counts.
๏Envisions Second Life, WoW, and Google Earth before they are invented; Where the word “avatar” was popularized.
๏#baconOnLeft.@ChristyFrinkDaredMe
TechFasting.com๏“High-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to psychoactive drugs. Like LSD, which can convince people they can fly--causing them to jump out of windows.”
๏#defenestrateWouldHaveBeenBetterThere
2. Snow Crash
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3. Astro City (first series #6)
TechFasting.com๏Explores the humanity of superheroes, like when they try to go on dates.
๏In a world where we have increasing power via our abilities and technology, how do we know we are spending our time on the right things?
3. Astro City (first series #6)
TechFasting.com๏“If you don’t deal with the world through anything but the costume and the mission -- Hasn’t Winged Victory become a kind of shelter herself -- ?”
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3. Astro City (first series #6)
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4. In the Beginning...was the Command Line
TechFasting.com๏Argues many frustrations from users are due to faulty metaphors like “save” or “window.”
๏Compares Mac OS to the Batmobile.
๏Great essays for user experience designers and open source software proponents.
4. In the Beginning...was the Command Line
TechFasting.com๏“So even the word ‘save’ is being used in a sense that is grotesquely misleading--’destroy one version, save another’ would be more accurate.”
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4. In the Beginning...was the Command Line
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5. A Logic Named Joe
TechFasting.com๏Sci-fi short story which envisioned the Internet before it existed and explores issues of censorship in a connected world.
๏Not a book by Seth Godin.
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5. A Logic Named Joe
TechFasting.com๏“But there ain’t any censor blocks workin’ any more and it’s on. The kids are much interested. Me, bein’ a old married man, I blush.”
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