Anxiety about their own knowledge and skills, anxiety about the present situation of social life, confusion and anxiety about the future trend. We are eager to see clearly how much energy new things in the future contain and where human beings and society will go. Some clever people who write books have predicted the future in the past. And your problem is reading too little and thinking too much.
This book list, probably each one has its own legend. There are Internet bosses' recommendations, and there are also bestsellers in the scientific and technological circles. Probably, each one has been placed in the bestseller position of CITIC Bookstore in the airport.
1, KK trilogy is out of control, which is bound to have something to do with technology.
Zhang Xiaolong, the father of WeChat, once said, "If the interviewer understands that it is out of control, he can go to Tencent to work." This sentence may have laid the groundwork for the publication of Out of Control at the earliest. Out of Control is famous for its page thickness and breadth of knowledge. People who can understand, respect you.
The mission from bee colony ants in nature to automatic control machines also predicts the possibilities of the future society: electronic money, Ponzi scheme, balance is death ... A book written in 1994 successfully predicted various scientific and technological phenomena in 20 years, which made the author kevin kelly (also known as KK) be regarded as a standard by netizens at once.
KK, who has made many speeches in China, has also been questioned as misguided and profligate. What is the hottest in the science and technology circle, what he predicts, and finally always emphasizes: "We are still at the beginning, and the greatest product in the next 20 years has not yet been born. It's not too late for you. " PPT stays in a few big words: You are not late.
I don't comment on KK's activities and predictions, but it is really the best slogan of this era that you are not late.
I was born in KK, Pennsylvania, and my life experience is also very interesting. I'm called a ranger. I've been to many places and wrote a book. He didn't finish college, but also claimed that he didn't love the internet, read paper newspapers and raised bees and chickens. The rich and varied ideas in KK Trilogy may benefit from his rich experience and profound thinking.
There are some known original basic viewpoints in the book, and many new viewpoints and theories have been created, but there is no completely self-consistent system and framework, which requires readers to treat them with critical thinking and choose their viewpoints.
2. A brief history trilogy A brief history of mankind, a brief history of the future, and a brief history of today.
Visiting CITIC Bookstore at the airport during the summer vacation, A Brief History of Today was placed in the most eye-catching position. As soon as it was published, it became a bestseller, with emphasis on recommending books. I don't know how sexy yuval Harari is. He finally collected his own trilogy.
Unlike KK's undergraduate status, yuval Heragli is a serious doctor and professor of history. Many of his thoughts about the future are based on his cognition of the past and his summary of objective laws.
When I first read A Brief History of Mankind, the shock was indescribable. For the first time, I know that history is a very intelligent and knowledgeable subject. There is too much interesting knowledge about how humans slowly form tribes and then give birth to countries and civilizations, which is obviously easy to be ignored.
Yuval Harari's book is more organized, systematic and readable than KK's book. A brief history of mankind begins with the evolution of primitive society and biology, and talks about the birth of Homo sapiens. A brief history of the future is based on the present human society and then extends backward, thinking and predicting. And A Brief History of Today is obviously the problem we are facing now: education, science and technology, hope and despair, and so on.
People who control logic (such as me) will suddenly grasp the main idea of the book and the order of the chapters, and feel that everything is flowing. And reading KK's book, the whole person's state is really out of control like his topic.
3. Wu Jun's trilogy Beauty of Mathematics, Peak of Tide and Light of Civilization.
Wu Jun's writing books is an honor for engineers. Tsinghua's lecturer, Google's search algorithm, and Tencent's vice president, he is the Internet tycoon blessed by these auras. But his writing is as sincere, simple and logical as his status as an engineer.
"Top of the Wave" tells the story of American IT giant IBM,? Apple, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Intel, Yahoo, Cisco and so on. There are also where chips and computers come from, how the operating system develops step by step, the origin of Jobs and Bill Gates, the corporate culture of the company and so on. Many well-known classic stories in the IT field are good references.
The Beauty of Mathematics is the first time that Wu Jun wrote a book. It was originally a series of blackboard articles in Google. Because everyone liked it, it was later compiled into a book. Many people say that this book tells the mathematics knowledge of high school and university in an easy-to-understand way, which makes people fall in love with mathematics again. In fact, although the author talked about Markov chains, Bayesian networks, matrices and even cosine functions from the perspective of search engines and natural language processing, they are easy to understand and interesting.
There was once a senior product manager who was not good at math. I heard that this written mathematics is easy to understand, so I tried to read it, and finally lost to a bunch of symbols for formula explanation. Mathematics is not something you can love if you want to. Sometimes you want to love hard, but math may reject you. If you don't believe me, you can try the beauty of simple and interesting mathematics.
The book "Light of Civilization" was originally written by Wu Jun in order to complete the trilogy, because it is also about the history of scientific and technological development, and may be duplicated with "Top of the Tide". But this is not the case. The light of civilization extends the time dimension farther and farther. It is as far away as walking slowly through the long river of human history, telling great events that changed human life, such as the invention of calculus, the great events of telephone and telegraph, and so on. These great events constitute the light of civilization in the whole human history.
The light of civilization is Wu Jun's magnificent turn from engineering students to liberal arts and history. Many people think that his "Beauty of Mathematics" is well written because of his profound expertise in mathematics and physics. "Top of the Tide" seems to be based on hearsay, telling the story of entrepreneurs creating big companies. However, Light of Civilization does reflect the author's profound accumulation and unique thinking in the fields of history and humanities.
Writing a book has always been a natural thing for scientific and technological practitioners with humanistic thinking. Moreover, the Light of Civilization has written several episodes like a series, which shows that the author has accumulated and precipitated surging expression desires and rich expression materials in the long river of history.
Wu Jun later wrote The Road to University and The Mystery of Silicon Valley. Strictly speaking, he is not a trilogy writer. However, the latter two books are not as widely circulated as the first trilogy, which may be the reason for the small audience.
finally
First of all, I recommend these trilogy books, which are familiar to almost everyone on the Internet and often mentioned in the speeches of science and technology leaders. Students who haven't seen it yet are worth reading.
When reading, we often think: We stand in the present, know where we came from when we look back, and know where we are going when we look forward to the future, so we don't worry or worry.