Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
by Werner Loewenstein · 29 Jan 2013 · 362pp · 97,862 words
. Cognition is something infinitely more subtle. We try to come to grips with it little by little in this book, as we move up the information trail in the brain. But here let me say that, at the very minimum, cognition entails an information gain, a net profit—and our protein demon
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger · 1 Jan 2009 · 263pp · 75,610 words
one’s interaction partner(s) now have, and can possibly share with others. If I order a book at Amazon.com, I leave behind an information trail that Amazon uses—among other things—to recommend books to me. Perhaps one would expect that. But the same is true when I only browse
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. They do it anyway. At times, I benefit from it when Amazon presents a selection of products that might appeal to me based on the information trail I have left behind. Most online retailers do the same, as do companies offering web-based e-mail, social networking, and information sharing. And Internet
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything
by Steven Levy · 2 Feb 1994 · 244pp · 66,599 words
program made it abundantly clear that the Mac was the first engine that could vivify the hypertext dream-one could hack out Vannevar Bush-like information trails by a few simple manipulations and clicks of the mouse. John Sculley himself took great pleasure in introducing the product at the August 1987 Macworld
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
“discombobulated genius” named Ted Nelson came up with the idea of “nonsequential writing,” which he coined “hypertext.”40 Riffing off Vannevar Bush’s notion of “information trails,” Nelson replaced Bush’s reliance on analog devices like levers and microfilm with his own faith in the power of digital technology to make these
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words
study). Governments and other aggressors may have the military advantage with guns, tanks and planes, but they’ll be fighting an uphill battle against the information trail they leave behind. If a government attempts to block citizen communications, it may be able to stifle some of the evidence flowing through and out
Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide
by Martin S. Fridson and Fernando Alvarez · 31 May 2011
as possible. Nevertheless, an energetic analyst can go a long way toward segregating ongoing operations from purchased earnings growth. Acquisitions of public companies leave an information trail in the form of regulatory filings. Conscientious searching of the media, including the industry-specialized periodicals and local newspapers, may yield useful tidbits on acquisitions
Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
by Derek Thompson · 7 Feb 2017 · 416pp · 108,370 words
fancy way of saying, “That thing got big really quickly, and we’re not sure how.” But there is a place where ideas leave an information trail: on the Internet. When I post an article on Twitter, it is shared and reshared, and each step of this cascade is traceable. Scientists can
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence
by John Brockman · 5 Oct 2015 · 481pp · 125,946 words
will doubtless enjoy some (probably many and various) means of interacting with the physical world. These encounters will be combined, however, with exposure to rich information trails reflecting our own modes of interaction with the world. So it seems possible that they could come to understand and appreciate soccer and baseball just
This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words
YouTube, etc. Rather than have all this stuff siloed off with different providers across the web, you’d be able to store your entire digital information trail in a single private repository. In its earliest conception, we tended to present a user’s stored data as a diagram, with circles and arrows
Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet
’s visitor center ( 231-326-5134; www.nps.gov/slbe; 9922 Front St; 8:30am-6pm Jun-Aug, to 4pm Sep-May) in Empire for information, trail maps and vehicle entry permits (week/annual $10/20). Attractions include the famous dune climb along Hwy 109, where you trudge up the 200ft-high
France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by Nicola Williams · 14 Oct 2010
USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet