GBN Book Club
Continuing a 25-year tradition, the GBN Book Club, edited by cofounder Stewart Brand, is a monthly review of books that shed new light on our past, present, and future. Stewart is also the author of five books and the cofounder of the Long Now Foundation, The WELL, the Whole Earth Catalogue and many other creative ventures.
December 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
November 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
October 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church and Ed Regis
September 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
August 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Emma Marris's cheery primer for what may come to be called "anthropocene ecology."
July 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Ed Glaeser's compelling look at what cities do for their occupants, the nations around them, and civilization.
June 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews George Dyson's new book on the digital universe in which we all now live.
May 2012
For the GBN Book Club, Stewart Brand reviews Stephen Pinker's fascinating exploration of why violence has declined over time.
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Brian Arthur
GBN Network
Economist and computer scientist and pioneer in complexity sciences and innovation; visiting researcher, PARC; external professor, Santa Fe Institute; fellow, Econometric Society, World Economic Forum; author, The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, and The Nature of Technology