Books of the Month

It was a bookful month for me.

In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters, Second Edition by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman
It was an excellent, fun to read book. This book is also a good guide to understanding a bit of tech/computer industry and its evolution. What makes this book a must read is due to the fact that the author had worked for the companies he talks about in the book during those times.

The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years by James Canton
Either this book is way out of my league or not that great. The writing style and/or the way it was laid out was part of the issue. Some of the areas/ideas presented in the book was obvious and has been talked about quite extensively. For example, sites like http://www.futureforall.org/ talk about most of the areas that the author talks about. One of the things I found it interesting in the book was the author's predictions about the future. But then if you know about sites like http://www.longbets.org/, then it isn't that unique. If you some time to burn, pick this and read.