Books
Notes about books I've read/am reading
blown to bits
Posted Thu Sep 16 09:21:37 2010
Catch 22
Posted Thu Sep 16 09:21:37 2010
diamond age
Posted Thu Sep 16 09:21:37 2010
El gen egoísta
Posted Thu Sep 16 09:21:37 2010
elmundoysusdemonios
Posted Thu Sep 16 09:21:37 2010
flatland
Posted Sat Jul 7 21:30:20 2012
godel escher bach
Posted Thu Oct 7 15:39:34 2010
i am legend
Posted Mon Jul 16 21:28:33 2012
oliver sacks
Posted Thu Oct 7 15:39:34 2010
sicp
Posted Thu Sep 16 09:21:37 2010
solaris
Posted Sat Jul 7 21:28:38 2012
Cool ideas from sci-fi books
Things that have amazed me from several sci-fi books
do androids dream of electric sheep?
- There are devices to set your emotions
Snow crash
- The librarian.
The diamond age
- Matter compilers!
- The drummers, distributed wetware computing. Information consolidation through fluid exchange.
Space oddyssey
- Turn Jupiter into a sun
- The monolith
- The idea of evolution beyond the meat, and beyond matter
Neuromancer
- Have your brain programmed to produce a drug, hormone or whatever
- The behaviour of Wintermute
- THe possibility of making you incapable of getting high with certain drugs