Shaping things

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If this idea about objects is interesting to you, check out Bruce Sterling's book "Shaping Things, " (non-affiliate link: http://www.amazon.com/Shaping-Things-Mediaworks-Pamphlets-St... ) He talks about how objects have changed and will change over time. Jesse is talking about "spimes" in this particular talk. The step after this? "Biots."

…own the the LA public library and picked up 10 stellar titles just this weekend, I highly recommend all of these: - Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software [MIT] - Prisoner's Dilemma [William Poundstone] - Thinking Strategically [Nalebuff] - Co-opetition [Nalebuff] - Cluetrain Manifesto [Searls] - Open Sources 2.0 [O'Reilly] - Innovator's Dilemma [Christensen] - Net Worth [Hagel] - Democratizing Innovation [von Hippel] - Fooled by Randomness [Taleb] Other books I always keep around are "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (a history of DJ's and electronic music), The Singularity is Near, and some Calvin and Hobbes ;-) All the reading is most definitely worth it, if you don't feel that way you're not reading the right stuff. The best book I've ever read is probably Anna Karenina (Magarshack translation, not the Oprah version, which is iro…