A Hacker’s Reading List
- I, Reader: A Nod to Asimov’s I, Robot
- Robots and Readers: A Tight Coupling of Container and Content
- Does Technology only Extend Thought? Does It also Supplant It?
- Machine Life: The Final Prejudice
- RB-34 Prefers Slushy Novels
- Creative Reading: A Golden String
- Creative Reading by anemone achtnich
- Creative Reading: The Art of Self
- Creative Reading: Thinking with Other Minds
- Creative Reading: The Art of Self, Take 2
- Creative Reading: The Discovery of Other (Thinking with the Minds of Others, Take 2)
- Creative Reading: The Mathematics of Self, Other and Extension
- What Books Changed You?
- I’ve always admired people who, in a pinch, are better than their principles
- Every Extension Breaks a Rule
- The Trajectory of Reading: Creative Contribution
- I Read, Therefore I Write
- What Readers Write May Not Be Literature, But It Might Become So
- “Narrow it down to … the upper left-hand brick”: Phaedrus
- “No one that he knew had ever written a whole metaphysics before”: Phaedrus
- Using a Blog to Draft a Book Idea: 9 Observations
- From Reading to Writing to Publishing with Digital Media
- Birth of the Reader-Writer
- To Read a Book is to Ignore 4000 Others
- Quantity has a Quality all its Own
- The Web is Re-Wiring My Brain
- How the Web Works for Readers: Thin Connections Lead to Rich Connections
- The Accidental Programmer
- Definitions of Hacking
- Ways of the Reader-Hacker
- Ways of the Reader-Hacker II: Breaking the Rules
- Ways of the Reader Hacker III: Two Bright Ideas
- A Hacker’s Reading List
- Ones and Zeros, On and Off Switches, All Sane Systems Require Downtime
- The Information Race and Pushing the Button
- How to Make an Elephant Statue
- Every Story Deserves a Good Ending
- Expressions of Offworld
- “Would I start to resemble a book myself?”
- Myth of the Reader-Hero
- Print is Digital
- Am I Still Chasing that First Reading High?
- Do Robots Read? Yes I Do (Conclusion to “I, Reader”)
- I, Reader: A Book Outline
- Reading List for Next Draft of I, Reader
Birth of the Reader-Hacker, Pt 7.
Reader-hackers will be interested in reading material on hacking. The following books won’t teach you how to program, are not especially practical, but there is a good chance they will inspire original and critical thinking about technology.
Doctorow, Cory (2008). Little brother. Tor Teen. Download.
Feng-Hsiung Hsu (2002). Behind deep blue: Building the chess computer that defeated the world chess champion. Princeton University Press.
Graham, Paul (2004) Hackers & painters: Big ideas from the computer age. O’Reilly.
Hillis, Daniel (1998). The pattern on the stone. Basic Books.
Kurzweil, Raymond (1999). The age of spiritual machines: When computers exceed human intelligence. Viking.
Norvig, Peter (2001). Teach yourself programming in ten years. Link.
Raymond, Eric S. (2001). The cathedral & the bazaar: Musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary. O’Reilly. Read online.
Rosenberg, Scott (2008) Dreaming in code. Three Rivers Press.
Sale, Kirkpatrick (1995). Rebels against the future: The Luddites and their war on the industrial revolution: Lessons for the computer age. Addison Wesley.
Sclove, Richard (1995). Democracy and technology. Guildford.
Ullman, Ellen (2001). Close to the machine: Technophilia and its discontents. City Lights.
Williams, Sam (2002). Free as in freedom: Richard Stallman’s crusade for free software. O’Reilly. Read online.
Got more to recommend?
i haven’t read most of these, but I have heard of them…great list.
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