31 May 2016
Alan Kay's reading list
(reproducing it here for archive)
| category | title | authors |
|---|---|---|
| Technology & Media | The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man | Marshall Mcluhan |
| Technology & Media | Understanding Media | Marshall Mcluhan |
| Technology & Media | The Myth of the Machine | Lewis Mumford |
| Technology & Media | Technics and Civilization | Lewis Mumford |
| Technology & Media | Technology, Management,and Society | Peter Drucker |
| Technology & Media | Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Peter Drucker |
| Technology & Media | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business | Neil Postman |
| Technology & Media | The Disappearance of Childhood | Neil Postman |
| Technology & Media | Conscientious Objections | Neil Postman |
| Learning & Creativity | The Psycology of the Child | Jean Piaget |
| Learning & Creativity | To Understand is to Invent | Jean Piaget |
| Learning & Creativity | Thought and Language | Lev Vygotsky |
| Learning & Creativity | To Understand Is to Invent | Lev Vygotsky |
| Learning & Creativity | The Psychology of Art | Lev Vygotsky |
| Learning & Creativity | Towards a Theory of Instruction | Jerome Bruner |
| Learning & Creativity | The Relevance of Education | Jerome Bruner |
| Learning & Creativity | Instead of Education: Ways to Help People do Things Better | John Holt |
| Learning & Creativity | Teach Your Own | John Holt |
| Learning & Creativity | Essays into Literacy | Frank Smith |
| Learning & Creativity | Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity | Edward De Bono |
| Learning & Creativity | Six Thinking Hats | Edward De Bono |
| Learning & Creativity | The Inner Game of Tennis | Tim Gallwey |
| Learning & Creativity | Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education | Shinichi Suzuki |
| Learning & Creativity | The Secret of Childhood | Maria Montessori |
| Learning & Creativity | The School and Society | John Dewey |
| Learning & Creativity | Freedom and Culture | John Dewey |
| Learning & Creativity | The Act of Creation: A Study of the Conscious and Unconscious in Science and Art | Arthur Koestler |
| Learning & Creativity | The Ghost in the Machine | Arthur Koestler |
| Learning & Creativity | Mindstorms | Seymour Papert |
| Learning & Creativity | The Childrens' Machine | Seymour Papert |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Myths to Live By | Joseph Campbell |
| Anthropology & Psychology | The Masks of God: Creative Mythology | Joseph Campbell |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Language and Species | Derek Bickerton |
| Anthropology & Psychology | The Psychology of Literacy | Silvia Scribner & Mike Cole |
| Anthropology & Psychology | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | Julian Jaynes |
| Anthropology & Psychology | The Interpretation of Cultures | Clifford Geertz |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Beyond Boredom and Anxiety | Mihaly Csikszentmihaly |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| Anthropology & Psychology | New World, New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious Evolution | Robert Ornstein & Paul Erlich |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Maps of the Mind | Charles Hampton-Turner |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Man and his Symbols | Carl Jung |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Modern Woman in Search of a Soul | Carl Jung |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Society of Mind | Marvin Minsky |
| Anthropology & Psychology | Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self | Anthony Stevens |
| Philosophy | Timeaus | Plato |
| Philosophy | Republic | Plato |
| Philosophy | A History of Western Philosophy | Bertrand Russell |
| Philosophy | Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits | Bertrand Russell |
| Philosophy | Sceptical Essays | Bertrand Russell |
| Philosophy | The Passion of the Western Mind | Richard Tarnas |
| Philosophy | Ascent of Man | Jacob Bronowski |
| Philosophy | Wisdom, Information & Wonder | Mary Midgley |
| Philosophy | Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and Its Meaning | Mary Midgley |
| Philosophy | The Human Condition | Hannah Arendt |
| Philosophy | Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics | Count Korzybski |
| Philosophy | Science if not Enough | Vannevar Bush |
| Philosophy | What I believe | Mark Booth (Ed) |
| Philosophy | Te-Tao Ching | Lao-Tzu |
| Philosophy | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Shunryu Suzuki |
| Art & Perception | Civilisation: A Personal View | Kenneth Clark |
| Art & Perception | What is a Masterpiece | Kenneth Clark |
| Art & Perception | Art and Illusion | Ernst Gombrich |
| Art & Perception | Eye and Brain | Richard Gregory |
| Art & Perception | Visual Thinking | Rudolf Arnheim |
| Design | Notes on the Synthesis of Form | Christopher Alexander |
| Design | Gossamer Odyssey: The Triumph of Human-Powered Flight | Morton Grosser |
| Design | Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology | Valentino Braitenberg |
| Design | The Living Brain | W. Gray Walter |
| Design | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information | Edward Tufte |
| Design | Envisioning Information | Edward Tufte |
| Science & Mathematics | The Machinery of Life | David Goodsell |
| Science & Mathematics | The Ring of Truth | Philip Morrison |
| Science & Mathematics | The Animal in Its World | Niko Tinbergen |
| Science & Mathematics | Relativity Visualized | L.C. Epstein |
| Science & Mathematics | Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology | Eric Drexler |
| Science & Mathematics | The Blind Watchmaker | Richard Dawkins |
| Science & Mathematics | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| Science & Mathematics | Dragons of Eden | Carl Sagan |
| Science & Mathematics | Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science | Carl Sagan |
| Science & Mathematics | Neuroethology | J.-P. Ewert |
| Science & Mathematics | The Character of Physical Law | Richard Feynman |
| Science & Mathematics | QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter | Richard Feynman |
| Science & Mathematics | The God Particle | Leon Lederman |
| Science & Mathematics | From Quarks to Cosmos | Leon Lederman |
| Science & Mathematics | The Double Helix | James Watson |
| Science & Mathematics | The Fractal Geometry of Nature | Benoit Mandelbrot |
| Politics & Economy | An American Primer | Daniel Boorstin |
| Politics & Economy | The Americans : The democratic experience | Daniel Boorstin |
| Politics & Economy | The Federalist Papers | Madison, Et Al |
| Politics & Economy | The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates | Ralph Ketcham (Ed) |
| Politics & Economy | Common Sense | Tom Paine |
| Politics & Economy | The Rights of Man | Tom Paine |
| Politics & Economy | The Age of Reason | Tom Paine |
| Politics & Economy | An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America | Benjamin Barber |
| Politics & Economy | The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change | Lester Thurow |
| Politics & Economy | Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works and Where It's Going | Lester Thurow |
| Politics & Economy | Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America | Lester Thurow |
| Politics & Economy | Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge | Mike Dertuozos (Ed) |
| Computers | Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project | Doug Lenat |
| Computers | LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual | John Mccarthy |
| Computers | Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines (Automatic Computation) | Marvin Minsky |
| Computers | The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment | Nicholas Negroponte |
| Computers | Soft Architecture Machines | Nicholas Negroponte |