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  1. wildcat2030:

Every few years a few truly great general interest books on technology, human problems, and social progress come along. Books like Carson’s Silent Spring, 1962. Toffer’s Future Shock, 1970. Piel’s The Acceleration of History, 1972. Drexler’s Engines of Creation, 1986. Moravec’s Mind Children, 1988. Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce, 1993. Stock’s Metaman, 1993. Simon’s The State of Humanity, 1996. Brin’s The Transparent Society, 1998. Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines, 1999. Rhodes’s Visions of Technology, 1999. Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 1999. Wright’s Nonzero, 2000. Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist, 2001. Wallace’s Moral Machines, 2008. Kelly’s What Technology Wants, 2010. Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011. Ridley’s The Rational Optimist, 2011. Now comes Diamandis and Kotler’s Abundance, 2012, a member of this very rare and special class. (via Abundance, 2012 – Why You Should Read This Book – Ever Smarter World)

    wildcat2030:

    Every few years a few truly great general interest books on technology, human problems, and social progress come along. Books like Carson’s Silent Spring, 1962. Toffer’s Future Shock, 1970. Piel’s The Acceleration of History, 1972. Drexler’s Engines of Creation, 1986. Moravec’s Mind Children, 1988. Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce, 1993. Stock’s Metaman, 1993. Simon’s The State of Humanity, 1996. Brin’s The Transparent Society, 1998. Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines, 1999. Rhodes’s Visions of Technology, 1999. Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 1999. Wright’s Nonzero, 2000. Lomborg’s The Skeptical Environmentalist, 2001. Wallace’s Moral Machines, 2008. Kelly’s What Technology Wants, 2010. Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature, 2011. Ridley’s The Rational Optimist, 2011. Now comes Diamandis and Kotler’s Abundance, 2012, a member of this very rare and special class. (via Abundance, 2012 – Why You Should Read This Book – Ever Smarter World)

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  2. + green et vert + Berkeley lab

    + green et vert + Berkeley lab

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  3. + changemod

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  4. + ECAL@Milano2012

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    + tale

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  6. benga + us + creative review

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  7. + after all

    + after all

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  8. + new mediology

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  9. + RVNG Intl.

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  10. healthy new year

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