Planet Wonder

Today’s offering is a long one… and the introduction may drive you up the wall.  Of course you can scroll past it and get right into Dr. Michio Kaku’s eye-opening and entertaining talk about the world of the future a scant 20 years from now. Is this how it will be?  Probably not.  Predictions of the future are seldom correct, but much of what he says will be there when we arrive will undoubtedly be possible.  Much of it is possible today, but  [ Read More ]

Let me start by admitting that this is the first of Doug Hofstadter’s books I’ve actually finished.  The first of his works I attempted to read was Gödel, Escher, Bach.  It was fascinating, but about three-quarters through he went into a private calculus and drove me out through the window.  His Mathemagical Themas was more approachable, but a very long book, and I was not in a mental place to “get” much of what he was saying. For some reason, however,  [ Read More ]