Lucas Rumney

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Further Reading

Books

Fiction and Perspectives

  • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (167)
  • Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna (1499)
  • Utopia, Thomas More (1516)
  • A Voyage to the Moon, Cyrano de Bergerac (1657)
  • The Sandman, E.T.A. Hoffman (1817)
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)
  • Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
  • Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
  • War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1867)
  • A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay (1920)
  • Fräulein Else, Arthur Schnitzler (1924)
  • Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell (1936)
  • How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie (1936)
  • The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
  • Animal Farm, George Orwell (1945)
  • 1984, George Orwell (1949)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (1962)
  • Behavior in Public Places, Erving Goffman (1963)
  • Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan (1964)
  • Act of Creation, Arthur Koestler (1964)
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein (1966)
  • We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Philip K. Dick (1966)
  • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison (1967)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick (1968)
  • Visual Thinking, Rudolf Arnheim (1969)
  • Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein (1973)
  • Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (1973)
  • Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester (1975)
  • Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum (1976)
  • A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick (1977)
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
  • Cosmos, Carl Sagan (1980)
  • Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard (1981)
  • Johnny Mnemonic, William Gibson (1981)
  • Turing's Man, J. David Bolter (1984)
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman (1985)
  • The Control Revolution, James R. Beniger (1986)
  • The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman (1988)
  • Technopoly, Neil Postman (1992)
  • Virtual Light, William Gibson (1993)
  • Diaspora, Greg Egan (1997)
  • The Education of a Graphic Designer, Steven Heller (1998)
  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Seamus Heaney (1999, ~725)
  • The Uncollected Baudrillard, Jean Baudrillard (2001 collection by Gary Genosko, ~1960s-)
  • Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte (2006)
  • Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Ethan Gilsdorf (2009)
  • Freedomland, Anne Bean (2009)
  • 3D Typography, Emily C. M. Anderson, Jeanette Abbin (2010)
  • Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
  • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein (2021)

Nonfiction and Research

  • The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster (1909) ;)
  • Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener (1948)
  • The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener (1950)
  • Faster Than Thought, B. V. Bowden (1953)
  • The Copernican Revolution, Thomas S. Kuhn (1957)
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)
  • LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual, John McCarthy (et al.) (1962)
  • Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, Marvin Minsky (1967)
  • The Sciences of the Artificial, Herbet A. Simon (1968)
  • Perceptrons, Marvin Minsky & Seymour Papert (1969)
  • My Years with Xerox: The Billions Nobody Wanted, John H. Dessauer (1971)
  • II Cybernetic Frontiers, Steward Brand (1974)
  • Computer Lib / Dream Machines, Ted Nelson (1974)
  • Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks (1975)
  • Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth (1976)
  • Literary Machines, Ted Nelson (1981)
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte (1983)
  • SMALLTALK-80 "Blue, Red, Purple" Books, Adele Goldberg et al. (1983)
  • The Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky (1986)
  • The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, Gregor Kiczales et al. (1991)
  • Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte (1995)
  • Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, Dennis Shasha, Cathy Lazere (1995)
  • The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan (1995)
  • Visual Explanations, Edward Tufte (1997)
  • The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil (1999)
  • The Dream Machine, W. Mitchell Waldrop (2001)
  • Free Software, Free Society, Richard Stallman (2002)
  • Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, Sam Williams (2002)
  • Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig (2004)
  • On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2004)
  • Live Graphics Nightly, Fred Lakin (2007)
  • The Second Life Herald, Peter Ludlow (2007)
  • The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain (2008)
  • Game Feel, Steve Swink (2008)
  • The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (2008)
  • You are not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier (2010)
  • Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman & Amos Twersky (2011)
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner (2012)
  • Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety, Nancy Leveson (2012)
  • Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier (2013)
  • The Myth of the Objective, Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman (2015)
  • Dawn of the New Everything, Jaron Lanier (2017)
  • Inventive Minds, Marvin Minsky (2017)
  • Abolish Silicon Valley, Wendy Lui (2020)
  • The Metaverse, Matthew Ball (2022)
  • Making a Metaverse that Matters, Wagner James Au (2023)
  • Means of Control, Byron Tau (2024)

Papers

Suggestion: Use SciHub to "acquire" these.

  • Right to Privacy, Louis Brandeis (1890)
  • As We May Think, Vannevar Bush (Atlantic, 1945)
  • Man-Computer Symbiosis, J.C.R. Licklider (1960)
  • Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, Doug Engelbart (1962)
  • Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network, J.C.R. Licklider (1963)
  • Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system, Ivan Sutherland (1963)
  • META II A SYNTAX-ORIENTED COMPILER WRITING LANGUAGE, D. V. Schorre (1963-4)
  • "Information", John McCarthy (Sept 1966, Scientific American Sept pg. 65)
  • The Computer as a Communication Device, J.C.R. Licklider and Bob Taylor (1968)
  • Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system, D.P. Reed (1979)
  • The Emperors Old Clothes, Tony Hoare (1980, ACM Turing Award Lecture)
  • End-to-End Arguments in System Design, J.H. Saltzer et al. (1984)
  • The LOCUS Distributed System Architecture, Gerald J. Popek (1985)
  • A Plea for Lean Software, Niklaus Wirth (1995)
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond (1999)
  • In the Beginning there was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson (1999)
  • MyLifeBits: fulfilling the Memex vision, Gordon Bell (2002)
  • The Power Of The Context, Alan Kay (2004)
  • How, Alan Kay (2019)
  • ABCs of Paxos, Leslie Lamport
  • The Memo (Series), Alan D. Thompson

Talks / Lectures

  • AC Keynote, Doug Engelbart (2004)
  • Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (2007)
  • Beautiful Computers for Cynics Series, Ted Nelson (2012)
  • Free is a Lie, Aral Balkan (2014)
  • How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day, Tristan Harris (2017)