Books That Make Me
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
by Robin Hanson
Getting a understanding of how AI will effect our future and how we need to adapt, a lot of my thoughts started after reading this work.
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Max Tegmark
If you are looking for a book that will give you a full understanding of AI, its potential and its risk, this is the book. I'm still to this day affected by the words in this book.
A New Kind of Science
Neural Networks and a treaty on how things at the base work is A New Kind Of Science. I read this around 2006 or 07 and it pushed a lot of my future innovations.
The Masks of Odin: Wisdom of the Ancient Norse
No other book has had as much of a effect on me as Mask of Odin. The Preface I have read so many times, in it Titchell explains the traditions of our ancestors in a science and reality based understanding. If you want to know my foundation for my faith or Liftharasir this is it.
The Poetic Edda
Hollander was my first read of the Poetic Edda, and if you look on my bookshelf today I have many versions and translations of the Edda, but I always come back to Hollander.
Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic
Runes are the mysteries of my ancestors and you will see them in all forms of my life. Edred, or Dr. Flowers treaty on the Elder Futhark started my deep journey down a wonderful mystery.
Hacking Matter: Invisble Clothes, Levitating Chairs, And The Ultimate Killer App
by Wil Mccarthy
If I can make one book turn into products it would be this one. I have read it over ten times and many of my science fiction stories are based off of thoughts I originally started dreaming up when I was reading this book.
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by Ray Kurzweil
The Singularity is almost here, I feel we are on the cusp of a radical change in civilization and I have based a lot of my thoughts from my reading of The Singularity is Near.
Engines of Creation Paperback
Hacking Matter started my love for Nano Technology but Drexler structed it into a belief that this change is what we as a civilization need.
Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
If you want to understand what will happen and how to make nano technology and how to live with it, this is the book. Radical Abundance will definitely make you hope for the future.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
If there was a business man who I imagine myself the most alike it is Elon Musk. His focus on science in his business models I hope I will one day structure my own ventures in.
Shogun: The Epic Novel of Japan
This novel to this day I bring up in what I want my sons to read as a coming of age book. Its base in history and culture is truly a rite of passage.