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[robotech_master]

A friend recommended to me a book by Umberto Eco, and as I was searching the web for information on him, I came across this interview with him from 1995. He talks about the new media, such as the Internet, and how it's important to have a system for filtering the deluge of information that comes in every day so you can pick out what's important to you. Some parts of the interview seem oddly prescient, such as his attitudes toward email. Others seem remarkably apt observations—though Mr. Eco did not know much about the Internet at the time of this interview, he knew a lot about human nature and that enabled him to make some rather insightful observations.

I think I'm going to have to find me some of his books.

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[a-machine.livejournal.com]

Focault's Pendulum. Yes. Good. Allocate more time for it that you would another book of the same length, though. It's dense.