by Wendy McGuinness | Mar 1, 2013 | Book Reviews
Have you found the book Antifragile yet? It’s worthwhile tracking one down even if it’s simply to read the prologue. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (the author) previously wrote The Black Swan. He is trying to...
by admin | Apr 30, 2012 | Book Reviews
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 parts, how many minutes does it take 100 machines to make 100 parts? For most of us, the instinctual response to this question is ‘100 minutes’ – but our instincts are wrong. The answer is actually 5 minutes. This problem...
by admin | Apr 30, 2012 | Book Reviews
In Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, he argues that open platforms, collaboration and experimentation are more facilitative to innovation than market forces and competition. The book has a sizeable appendix which presents a fascinating chronology of...
by Wendy McGuinness | May 1, 2010 | Book Reviews
By Mike Walsh “Massed produced media must give way for media produced by the masses.” page 34. In his insightful new book, digital futurist Mike Walsh observes that until recently media content originated from professionals, was marketed by experts and distributed...
by Wendy McGuinness | Apr 1, 2010 | Book Reviews
By Robert H. Samet Long-Range Futures Research: An Application of Complexity Science is an ambitious book which provides a guide to civil, societal, technological and environmental changes. Divided into three parts, the book first explains a systems approach to...
by Wendy McGuinness | Mar 1, 2010 | Book Reviews
By Tim Flannery What an intriguing and enlightening adventure that Tim Flannery takes you on in ‘Throwim Way Leg’. While Tim’s personal experiences covered in the book are during the 1980s and 1990s in New Guinea, the pace of change he saw during that period is...
