jonjacky

This reader’s recommendations and supporting excerpts from the sampled discussions.

12 books

jonjacky · Mar 28, 2020
Computer Lib/Dream Machines by Ted Nelson. From 1974.
jonjacky · Jan 19, 2024
Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum (1976).
jonjacky · Aug 18, 2019
Algorithmics by David Harel. Not a textbook, but a more popular Scientific American level treatment. Very readable and accessible but quite rigorous also
jonjacky · Jul 21, 2026
including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.
jonjacky · Oct 8, 2009
"Clause and Effect" by Clocksin.
jonjacky · Jan 19, 2024
Computation and Human Experience, Phil Agre (1997)
jonjacky · Mar 28, 2020
Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum. From 1976.
jonjacky · Mar 28, 2020
Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray.
jonjacky · Jul 21, 2026
Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman (2005)
jonjacky · Jul 21, 2026
including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.
jonjacky · Jul 21, 2026
John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982)
jonjacky · Jan 19, 2024
Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich (1973) [1].