Books on technology not by Seth Godin

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Godin is a marketing expert, but since he has been talking about online marketing so much lately, he often gets lumped into the technology category. If this is the only technology book in your reading diet, I need to get you excited about some other selections. Here are five great books on technology if you need to diversify. Enjoy! I presented this at Ignite Nashville.

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Brace yourself for the bookshelf ADVENTURE TOUR!!!!!!

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1. Neil Postman

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TechFasting.com๏Learning how to use technology is easy. (Read: Google) The hard part is learning how it uses us.

๏Start with Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, or The End of Education.

๏#WoooahWayTooManyBooksPerSlideBuddy

1. Neil Postman

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TechFasting.com๏“What we needed to know about cars--as we need to know about computers, television, and other important technologies--is not how to use them but how they use us.”

๏-The End of Education

๏#SooooThisWholeThingIsAboutBooks?kthxbi

1. Neil Postman

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2. Snow Crash

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2. Snow Crash

๏Dude is a ninja, a hacker, and a pizza delivery boy. Badass on all counts.

๏Envisions Second Life, WoW, and Google Earth before they are invented; Where the word “avatar” was popularized.

๏#baconOnLeft.@ChristyFrinkDaredMe

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TechFasting.com๏“High-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to psychoactive drugs. Like LSD, which can convince people they can fly--causing them to jump out of windows.”

๏#defenestrateWouldHaveBeenBetterThere

2. Snow Crash

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3. Astro City (first series #6)

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TechFasting.com๏Explores the humanity of superheroes, like when they try to go on dates.

๏In a world where we have increasing power via our abilities and technology, how do we know we are spending our time on the right things?

3. Astro City (first series #6)

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TechFasting.com๏“If you don’t deal with the world through anything but the costume and the mission -- Hasn’t Winged Victory become a kind of shelter herself -- ?”

๏#DidThatComicBookJustGetDeeperThanSethGodin?๏#awwwwSNAP!

3. Astro City (first series #6)

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4. In the Beginning...was the Command Line

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TechFasting.com๏Argues many frustrations from users are due to faulty metaphors like “save” or “window.”

๏Compares Mac OS to the Batmobile.

๏Great essays for user experience designers and open source software proponents.

4. In the Beginning...was the Command Line

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TechFasting.com๏“So even the word ‘save’ is being used in a sense that is grotesquely misleading--’destroy one version, save another’ would be more accurate.”

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4. In the Beginning...was the Command Line

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5. A Logic Named Joe

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TechFasting.com๏Sci-fi short story which envisioned the Internet before it existed and explores issues of censorship in a connected world.

๏Not a book by Seth Godin.

๏#OhMaAWARDS?yahIMaPrettyBigDeal๏#GotTheGoldenKrautOnMaLinkedIN

5. A Logic Named Joe

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TechFasting.com๏“But there ain’t any censor blocks workin’ any more and it’s on. The kids are much interested. Me, bein’ a old married man, I blush.”

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5. A Logic Named Joe

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#iBorrowedTheseOnesToLookSmartOrly?

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