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Silicon Jungle

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  • Author                   : Shumeet Baluja
  • Year                       : 2011
  •  Amazon                : click here
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Silicon Jungle       :  With Google+ on the verge of release, this is a timely read to rethink how important your privacy is.  Shumeet Baluja  (Phd. @ Google) writes of a great Sci-Fi that is not so much Sci-Fi as it is foresight–Is Shumeet telling us something about Google’s plans of the future?   Can all this data-mining undermine our countries security?  A great storyline + great technology make for a quick read and one you will not want to put down.  This book gives the tech professional some great ideas for creating those web-based apps with MySQL underneath…. If for nothing else, a little more automation for your corporate office.  I really liked this book.

Singularity

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  • Author              : Bill DeSmedt
  • Year                  : 2005
  • Amazon            : click here

My Review            :

Singularity.  I so love near Sci-Fi and it does not get better than this.  A great read and pretty accurate for the time frame written.   There was one part about a software hack that gave me quite a clever spin on something I needed to do in real-life, and that is exactly why I encourage my mentored students to read near Sci-Fi.  A few little tech factoid s out of place, but still a fantastic journey you will take from this.   The action is page turning, the character definition is terrific and  the underlying plot is quite clever and has you re-reading facts about the original event, people and references the authors bring up, making it even better of a read.  .  Brush up on your quantum physics and black hole knowledge.  This would make such a great movie for today.