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Books on technology not by Seth Godin
Confession: I bash Seth Godin on Google Wave.
Now I’m going to tell you what I think of him in public at PodCamp’s after party, Ingnite Saturday March 6th.
In 5 minutes and 20 slides I’ll cover a few selections of fiction, non-fiction, comics, and other gems that serve as great alternatives and supplements to your reading list on technology.
In all fairness, I’m trying to finish The Complete Works Of Seth Godin in time for PodCamp. You can’t fully refute anything unless you’ve fully immersed yourself in the content.
Which reminds me, Tom Cheredar, have you finished reading the Twilight series I let you borrow? (Actually all his Twilight-bashing points are valid, but I still like the movies—er I mean… I probably just lost all my credibility.)
Back to establishing my ethos…
Godin is a marketing expert, but since he has been talking about online marketing so much lately, he often gets lumped into the technology category. If this is the only technology book in your reading diet, we need to invent a new dietary word and start using it and then of course start marketing it to our friends: Tribeans?
A taste of what can be in your mouth right now:
A Logic Named Joe
One neat way to dissect how the Internet is affecting our society is to read books that foreshadow the Internet before it was invented. It makes it easy to pick up on universal trends when authors envision technology as utopia or dystopia. When things come to pass, we can see how far off they were.
An example in science fiction is a short story written in 1946: A Logic Named Joe. Basically “logics” are computers and the story explores society after the “logics” start talking to each other and making information widely available.
There are early radio adaptations too!
1950 NBC radio adaptation of A Logic Name Joe
29:23 | mp3
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