The Unheavenly City by Edward Banfield: PDF: http://www.kevinrkosar.com/Edward-C-Banfield/Edward-C-Banfield-The-Unheavenly-City-Revisited.pdf http://www.kevinrk

The Unheavenly City by Edward Banfield: PDF: http://www.kevinrkosar.com/Edward-C-Banfield/Edward-C-Banfield-The-Unheavenly-City-Revisited.pdf http://www.kevinrkosar.com/Edward-C-Banfield/Edward-C-Banfie... Review: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92789.html http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92789.html His time preference classes explains so much of people regardless of race, religion, nationality, etc. Rise of the Fourth Reich: http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fourth-Reich-Societies-Threaten/dp/0061245593/ http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fourth-Reich-Societies-Threaten/d... This is where I learned about Konrad Zuse creating a digital computer and programming language miles away from Bletchley Park in the early 40s. Dealers of Lightning: http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895 http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/... It's about XEROX PARC. Unfortunately, they did not talk about how PARC made the OS and apps obsolete by using objects communicating over a network. I had to learn about that from an Alan Kay video. It did show how PARC contributed to the Internet by creating an internet before ARPANET. Last and best of all: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php http://vpri.org/html/writings.php The latest report, "Steps Toward Expressive Programming Systems", describes a computer system without an OS. They seem to be refining what PARC did back in the late 1970s.