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No particular order. Images too.
 
No particular order. Images too.
  
Perhaps should be called further reading and include web-links to other website, essays wikipedia articles etc. too.
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Perhaps this page should be called 'further reading' and include web-links to other websites, essays, wikipedia articles, etc.  
  
Simply a list of interesting books that relate to some aspects of concepts described in AdCiv.
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For the moment, a list of interesting books are listed that relate to some aspects or concepts described in AdCiv.
  
The idea is that these books would describe clearly things that are possible or general thinking that is desirable for the beneficial progress of mankind based on rational and scientific thinking.
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The idea is that these books would describe clearly things that are possible, or general thinking that is desirable, for the beneficial progress of mankind based on rational and scientific thinking.
  
''These are books that may be interesting or useful, however please note this does not necessarily mean that AdCiv advocates all things said by any of these authors!''
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''These are books that may be interesting or useful, however please note this does not necessarily mean that AdCiv advocates <u>all</u> things said by any of these authors!''
 
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=Books=
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==Philosophy of Science==
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|valign=top |'''Beginning of infinity''' by David Deutch FRS<br><br>Very interesting and well explained book covering a wide set of topics that might be loosely categorised under philosophy of science, and the unbounded nature and aspects of human progress and understanding (as well as some of the fundamental limitations). David Deutch is a pioneer in the field of quantum computation and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University's Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory.<br><br>[http://beginningofinfinity.com/ Book website] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0713992748#Booksellers bookseller links]
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|valign=top |'''Beginning of infinity''' by David Deutch FRS<br><br>
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Very interesting and well explained book covering a wide set of topics that might be loosely categorised under philosophy of science, and the unbounded nature and aspects of human progress and understanding (as well as some of the fundamental limitations).<br><br>
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David Deutch is a pioneer in the field of quantum computation and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University's Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory.<br><br>[http://beginningofinfinity.com/ Book website] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0713992748#Booksellers bookseller links]
 
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== Post-Scarcity ==
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* Free is Cheaper (1988) by Ken Smith
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* Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (Nov 2011) by Anitra Nelson (Ed.) and Frans Timmerman (Ed.)
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== Technology vs. Economics ==
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* The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (Sep 2009) by Martin Ford
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* The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Feb 2014) by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee
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== Silver Bullet Technologies ==
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''Software''
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* Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Jul 2014) by Nick Bostrom
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''Hardware''
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* Radical Abundance (May 2013) by K. Eric Drexler
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== Personal Fabrication ==
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* Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication (Mar 2007) by Neil Gershenfeld
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= Unsorted =
  
 
* Neil Gershenfeld
 
* Neil Gershenfeld
 
* Mining the sky
 
* Mining the sky
 
* High Frontier - Gerard O'Neill
 
* High Frontier - Gerard O'Neill
* Engines of creation - Eric Drexler
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* Engines of Creation - Eric Drexler. Best known for articulating the possibility of productive [[nanotechnology]], this book is also an excellent example of futurology in general, covering space exploration, changing social structures and more. The updated 2007 version is available for free [http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=503 here].
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* [http://books.zcommunications.org/ParEcon/lookingforward/toc.htm ''Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the 21st Century''] by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
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* [http://producingoss.com/ Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project]
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Art-Community-Building-Participation-Practice/dp/0596156715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330048036&sr=8-1 The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation] - [http://www.jonobacon.org/ Jono Bacon] - freely available [http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/get/ here]
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* [http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/ The Cathedral and the Bazaar] - [http://www.catb.org/~esr/ Eric Steven Raymond]
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* [http://open-advice.org/ Open Advice - FOSS: What We Wish We Had Known When We Started] - advice from 42 prominent open-source contributors
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* [http://thesis.erikdebruijn.nl/master/MScThesis-ErikDeBruijn-2010.pdf On the viability of the open source development model for the design of physical objects: Lessons learned from the RepRap Project] - [http://blog.erikdebruijn.nl/ Erik de Bruijn]
  
{{note|Please click on the link in the text under each book, rather than the book image itself}}
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= Also See =
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*[[Videos]]

Latest revision as of 23:34, 14 November 2014

<< Page in early stages >>

No particular order. Images too.

Perhaps this page should be called 'further reading' and include web-links to other websites, essays, wikipedia articles, etc.

For the moment, a list of interesting books are listed that relate to some aspects or concepts described in AdCiv.

The idea is that these books would describe clearly things that are possible, or general thinking that is desirable, for the beneficial progress of mankind based on rational and scientific thinking.

These are books that may be interesting or useful, however please note this does not necessarily mean that AdCiv advocates all things said by any of these authors!

Books

Philosophy of Science

Boi cover large.jpg Beginning of infinity by David Deutch FRS

Very interesting and well explained book covering a wide set of topics that might be loosely categorised under philosophy of science, and the unbounded nature and aspects of human progress and understanding (as well as some of the fundamental limitations).

David Deutch is a pioneer in the field of quantum computation and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University's Centre for Quantum Computation (CQC) in the Clarendon Laboratory.

Book website and bookseller links

Post-Scarcity

  • Free is Cheaper (1988) by Ken Smith
  • Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (Nov 2011) by Anitra Nelson (Ed.) and Frans Timmerman (Ed.)

Technology vs. Economics

  • The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (Sep 2009) by Martin Ford
  • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (Feb 2014) by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee

Silver Bullet Technologies

Software

  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Jul 2014) by Nick Bostrom

Hardware

  • Radical Abundance (May 2013) by K. Eric Drexler

Personal Fabrication

  • Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication (Mar 2007) by Neil Gershenfeld

Unsorted

Also See