Ebrary – almost love!

The ebook service Ebrary has made quite a few improvements lately. No longer do you have to install ebrary reader – which only works with some browsers – to use the service to its full potential. Earlier, thery were also loads of strange quirks in the interface. It’s only a few left now, such as

They [...]

The ebook service Ebrary has made quite a few improvements lately. No longer do you have to install ebrary reader – which only works with some browsers – to use the service to its full potential. Earlier, thery were also loads of strange quirks in the interface. It’s only a few left now, such as

  1. They could have wasted a lot of empty space in the upper part of the screen, to make room for more hight in the reading area.
  2. Well, they should really rethink the ugly design :) Why not try a contemporary look…

The screenshot below shows Ebrary at the full hight of a 24 inch screen. A 15 inch laptop also works quite well…

ps. Ebrary is a paid service you might have access to if you are a student or staff at a University or other form of higher education.

Ebrary - Maeda, Laws of simplicity

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WWW:Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

WWW:Wake is Robert J. Sawyer’s latest novel (April 7, 2009). It’s deals with the same theme as many of his novels: human & nonhuman consciousness, and how evolutionary leaps can make great changes in a very short period of time. I was fascinated by his books in the Neanderthal Parallax, which described an alternative civilization build [...]

www:wake by Robert J Sawyer

WWW:Wake is Robert J. Sawyer’s latest novel (April 7, 2009). It’s deals with the same theme as many of his novels: human & nonhuman consciousness, and how evolutionary leaps can make great changes in a very short period of time. I was fascinated by his books in the Neanderthal Parallax, which described an alternative civilization build by a slightly alternative mindset, and WWW:Wake is hardly less fascinating. It’s about a blind girl getting sight with the help of signal processing technology. The information processing unit, the “eye-pod”, is also connected to the web for updating and research practices. The stream of visual information awakens a web based consciousness…

It doesn’t feel altogether realistic in my mind, but I don’t give much for my own skill in measuring the value of an idea representation to something so complex and hypothetical as the ideas in this book. I my experience, realism is hardly realistic. Consciousness in every form is for me completely unrealistic. It is truly hard to imagine how a wonderful thing like consciousness can occur in a life form. WWW:Wake his is a good story, and it leaves you with something to think about.

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