Snow Crash, Pop Culture, and Virtual Worlds

Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below:

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

• OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
• OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
• OxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for Terraform
• OxF s01e16 - The Books in the Box
• OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux
• OxF s03e22 - Books in the Box III
• OxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IV

Other Notes:

• Princeton Review: Happiest Students
• UMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton Review
• CHM Oral Histories
• Night Rider (and K.I.T.T.)

From Bryan and Adam (and others)

• The Mouse Driver Chronicles
• Fumbling the Future
• Slingshot
• Chip War
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital @bcantrill (economics book recommendation)
• Snow Crash (another Neal Stephenson book)
• The Big Short
• Reinventing The Wheel
• Eccentric Orbits (recommended by listener)
• Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (recommended by listener)
• Molly White's **review ** of Read Write Own
• Careless People
• NOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us!)
• Surreal Numbers by Knuth (recommended by listeners)

From Oliver Herman

• Open Circuits
• Systems Performance
• Why We're Getting Poorer
• Termination Shock

From Tom Lyon

• From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog
  • See also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline Flight
• The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
• The NVIDIA Way

From Dan McDonald

• Inventing the Renaissance
• Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

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