Hacker Neue

Preferences
toomuchtodo
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

andrei_says_
The ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson explores technological and societal solutions to climate collapse in a novel form.

Starts in somewhat current time and follows humanity’s trajectory for the next 30-ish years.

I found it especially interesting because it does expose and address the socioeconomic issues preventing us from taking action on climate.

elnatro
Good premise. The stereotypes he wrote about Spain were atrocious.
firefax
I feel like what's interesting to the technically minded will stay evergreen? (You mentioned Neuromancer for example)

"A Brief History of Time" was one of my favorite books as a pre-teen beginning to wonder how the world works.

On the fiction side I've heard good things about Cory Doctorow's works -- I purchased a copy of "Little Brother" a while back and enjoyed it. Maybe not as high literature as 1984 or Catch 22 but it was engaging and if I had kids I'd gift it to them when they were the right age.

andyjohnson0
I'm pretty technically minded, but first I should probably ask: what's the age cut-off for "young"?
drdec OP
My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child
sloaken
Ah good plan, I like it.

I will be following your lead.

mghackerlady
I can't speak for every young person, but for me mostly the same things older technically minded people were reading. Currently I've been reading Tanenbaums Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
chasenjohnson
I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.
antinomicus
Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.
tptacek
Pretty rude response, right?
sloaken
It is an opinion. Interestingly because of that opinion I am actually looking at the book. At least reading the Wiki summary.
tptacek
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
6 More Comments →
jerlendds
Some books Ive been reading/plan to read: https://studium.dev/books
closetkantian
I'd recommend Careless People, if you haven't read it.
coolfox
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
s1mplicissimus
It's not very current, but I remember this being one of my favorite books back in college:

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan

operatorius
At the moment I'm reading:

* Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

* Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps the Score

bcx76
Mostly the Kardashian book club recos. Learn video editing in 3 days etc.
segmondy
anything and everything that piques their interest
Lapsa
your mind

This item has no comments currently.