Weekly Reading (2021/06/01)

AmigaWorld: Illustration from the article "Absoft's AC/FORTRAN." (March/April 1987)

Selections from the Web:

• Christian Lorentzen: I Grew a Beard
• Ernie Smith: How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the ’90s
• Whet Moser: Let Us Now Praise Jhane Barnes

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

Note: This was for a thing, I can’t say I’d recommend recommending any of these books, much less all of them in one week.

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Fooled by Randomness: the Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001). ISBN: 0812975219
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007). ISBN: 9781400063512
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010). ISBN: 9780812982404
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (2012). ISBN: 1400067820
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018). ISBN: 9780425284629

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Os Keyes, Zoë Hitzig, and Mwenza Blell: “Truth From the Machine: Artificial Intelligence and the Materialization of Identity,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, (2021)
• Rob Kling: “Computerization and Social Transformations,” Science, Technology, & Human Values, (1991)

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