Wow, three posts in short succession! I’m doing well at the moment. Here are three more books I have read this year. Though in reality, one is a reference book that I pulled off the shelf to find some information that I seemed unable to get from the Web. Now there’s a surprise!
Anyone of the pre-mobile era, will find this a great read. It traces the rise of the mobile phone from early Nokia days right up to the latest iPhone (circa 2020’s – when this book was published). Why it took me so long to find and read it, I am not sure.
However, the household name of, well it was for me – Rory Cellan-Jones tells a great story about the Hendy (German), Cell (American), Mobile (UK) – local parlance for what has now become one of the most ubiquitous devices of all time.
How did Apple’s iPhone & Google’s Android outwit all the other offerings? What happened to Blackberry, Ericsson and many others? This book will tell you all. It’s a very good read.
Book two of this series. Another good read from Abir Mukherjee, continuing the story of unlikely bed-fellows, Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee off on another detective adventure.
Sometimes I feel that follow-on books don’t always live up to expectations, but this does and I am sure the others in the series will, there are four more after this one.
Always great to find new authors that can weave a story over so many books, the first two have kept me entertained and a good job that my sister has all the rest of the series, so that will save some pennies as I work through them.
A New Kind of Science is a very interesting book, again something that I actually bought quite a while ago (2002), read some of it, but then kept it on a shelf as a sort of reference book.
If I remember correctly, I came across Stephen Wolfram‘s name and his book when I was doing some consulting work with a number of small end computer companies looking for the next ‘big-thing’ and his name was mentioned by a number of them. Sadly, none of their ideas came to fruition, but I did get paid!. The book has been quite an interesting book to keep for reference. His comments about Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a 2002 viewpoint are very interesting.
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