The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a book that I gave 3-stars to because parts of it are 5-star and parts are 1-star, so this is how it averages … Continue reading
The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin by Peter H. Salus My rating: 4 of 5 stars I give this a high rating because it does what it sets out to do very well.Peter Salus was involved in the history … Continue reading
My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think this book would be a good one for your older relative who doesn’t understand everything going on in the online world. It covers how old businesses are going over the cliff, and … Continue reading
Recently a Norwegian Kindle owner named Linn suddenly found her Kindle had been wiped clean of all the books she had purchased from Amazon. Whether this was a simple mistake or yet another act of evilness is not the main … Continue reading
Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is not a page turner. What this is really useful for is a bathroom book. Small, digestible chunks that let you read a little and put … Continue reading
Monty Montgomery is perhaps best known as the main person behind the OGG audio and video formats. He is pretty knowledgable about these things, so when he says most people are asking for the wrong things, I think it is … Continue reading
A History of Europe by John Morris Roberts My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read the audiobook version. People who know me well enough will learn that my first degree was in History, and it is still a strong … Continue reading
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fun book. I won’t claim that it is cosmically significant, … Continue reading
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read this as a Nook eBook. The global climate is changing and the ice caps are melting. Civil liberties are eroding. … Continue reading
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein My rating: 5 of 5 stars Harry Truman once said “The only thing new in this world is the history you don’t know.” He was guided throughout his political … Continue reading
