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Space/Technical Suggestions Here are a number of outer space and technical recommendations from various Spacers. Did we miss anything indispensible? Amazon.com provides excellent customer service and a wide range of shipping options to both U.S. and worldwide customers. Amazon.com also includes a few pages of excerpts for many books. Click through to buy these volumes that belong in any library: 
Space : The Next Business Frontier Dobbs created a media sensation when he jumped ship as the anchor for CNN's Moneyline to launch Space.com during the heyday of Internet startups in 2001. He returned to CNN two years later as his space venture failed to achieve Dobbs's lofty ambitions, although unlike many dot-coms, Space.com is still in operation. In his book, Dobbs presents what is in essence the business rationale for Space.com. Despite his own company's struggles, Dobbs remains convinced that lots of money can be made in the heavens. "S-commerce" is now a $100-billion business, Dobbs claims, with huge growth potential. Lou Dobbs. The Age of Spiritual Machines How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Cosmos DVD Boxed Set (Collector's Edition) From the lives of the stars, to creation theories, functions of the human brain, and the ongoing search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Cosmos asks big questions. When appropriate, Sagan offers big answers, or asks still bigger--and yes, even spiritual--questions at the boundaries of science and religion. What's most remarkable about Cosmos is that it remains almost entirely fresh, with few updates needed to the science that Sagan so passionately celebrates. The Illustrated Brief History of Time This is not an easy book for the everyday layperson, but it is also true that the reader will want to read it more than once in her lifetime. Anyone who is interested in science, and in this case astrophysics, should feel that as the years go by, this book will offer new understanding of the way the universe works. Observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed the wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected. Stephen Hawkings. 
From the Earth to the Moon Originally broadcast in April and May of 1998, the epic miniseries was HBO's most expensive production to date, with a budget of $68 million. Hosted by executive producer Tom Hanks, the miniseries tackles the daunting challenge of chronicling the entire history of NASA's Apollo space program from 1961 to 1972. For the most part, it's a rousing success. Some passages are flatly chronological, awkwardly wedging an abundance of factual detail into a routine dramatic structure. But each episode is devoted to a crucial aspect of the Apollo program. The cumulative effect is a deep and thorough appreciation of NASA's monumental achievement. With the help of a superlative cast, consistent writing, and a stable of talented directors, Hanks has shared his infectious enthusiasm for space exploration and the inspiring power of conquering the final frontier. HBO. The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet One fashionable school of thought holds that scientific revolutions are spurred primarily by shifts in the basic concepts that science understands the world with, and that those shifts are largely the outcome of struggles in the social and political realms. Freeman Dyson, however, is having none of it. For him, scientific breakthroughs owe just as much to the introduction of new technologies--the telescope in early modern Europe, for instance; the computer more recently. He's not the first to make that argument, but his lifetime of accomplishments as an eminent theoretical physicist puts some heft behind his claims. Freeman Dyson The Emperor's New Mind Some love it, some hate it, but this 1989 treatise attacking the foundations of strong artificial intelligence, is crucial for anyone interested in the history of thinking about AI and consciousness. Part survey of modern physics, part exploration of the philosophy of mind, the book is not for casual readers--though it's not overly technical, it rarely pauses to let the reader catch a breath. The overview of relativity and quantum theory, written by a master, is priceless and uncontroversial. Roger Penrose. Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind In this brilliant book, Moravec makes a recollection of artificial intelligence evolution throughout the years and finished it with possible scenarios and technologies that might arise as this brand of science develops in the years to come. The book ends with possible scenarios and technologies that might arise as this brand of science develops in the years to come. Moravec himself is a leader on robotic reaserch and founder of the world's largest robotics program at Carnegie Mellon University. Hans Moravec. . . . your suggestions go here . . .
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