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Some of the greatest minds in high tech have given up the basics of internet life. Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine and the Long Now Foundation, reports that computer programming sage Donald Knuth no longer does e-mail. What happens when Knuth, the author of seminal trilogy The Art of Computer Programming, won't even participate in one of the world's most popular uses for computer programs (i.e., e-mail)? Apparently, he gets more done. Another programming genius, free software revolutionary Richard Stallman, refuses to use the web. He uses text-based browser Lynx and e-mail to retrieve pages he wants to see. Now Kelly is asking what happens to highly technical people like Knuth and Stallman who eschew popular computer technologies. More »
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Richard Stallman is the infamous inventor of several brilliant software tools, as well as the founder of the free software movement. He influenced an entire generation of computer nerds who took his ideas to heart and created software that you can freely modify — if you're reading this with free software browser Firefox, and I know that the majority of you are, then you're benefiting directly from Stallman's ideas. He's also an avid science fiction reader, and over the years has loaned me several books from his collection. Here are three of the most interesting book recommendations I've gotten from one of the geek world's greatest living visionaries. More »
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