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Case in point: {{author|Adam Smith}}’s [[invisible hand]]. Its beauty as a model is it supposes e

*{{author|Ray Kurzweil}}

{{author|Julian Jaynes}} rounds out his wonderful {{bookreview|The Origins of Consci ...trated, or the scientific mien so resembling of a religious one, than in {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s hymn to forthcoming {{t|technology}}, {{bookreview|The S

Fans of {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} and {{author|Rory Sutherland}} will know all about it, but for mathematics clots like me

*{{Br|The Singularity is Near}}, {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s celebrated/loopy{{daa}} 2004 book which promoted this id

...was a contrarian, didn’t I?</ref> Much insurance is [[iatrogenics]], in {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s argot, writ large. *{{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}

...atch — there ''is'' no match, frankly — for the redoubtable [[Ken Adams]], author of {{br|A Manual of Style for the Drafting of Contacts}}.

}}In the same way that {{author|Douglas Adams}} and John Lloyd ingeniously recycled underused place-names a

{{Author|Stewart Brand}} has a great expression for the kind of technology that is s

...tate: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}} — {{author|James C. Scott}}<br> :—{{author|Rory Sutherland}}, citing {{author|Paul Ormerod}}}}

{{br|Code: Version 2.0}} — {{author|Lawrence Lessig}} ...all seriously then, whatever your political or philosophical persuasion, {{author|Lawrence Lessig}}’s {{Bookreview|Code: Version 2.0}} is a compulsory read

...overlooked through no cognitive operation, actual or constructive, on the author’s part at all?

...e {{buchstein}} antagonist, [[Winthrop Grumman]], who took notes while the author mumbled incoherently from the depths of a malarial swoon in an opium den in

:—{{author|Venkatesh Rao}}, {{br|Breaking Smart: Season One}}}} :—{{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}}

...led style guru and all-round Robert Fripp of [[plain English]] advocacy, {{author|Ken Adams}} who, in his epochal ''[[A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting

}}{{br|I am a Strange Loop}} — {{author|Douglas Hofstadter}} {{author|Douglas Hofstadter}} is not a philosopher (though he’s friends with one),

{{author|Daniel Pink}} popularised the [[candle problem]] in a TED Talk and with a r ...tence of big organisations on narrow, stupid compensation models maddens {{author|Daniel Pink}}, giver of said TED talk, who rails at the absurdity and venal

*For bad: [[Systemantics: The Systems Bible]] — {{Author|John Gall}}

There are rumoured to be other unfinished operas and librettos that the author feverishly scribbled down in his final days. Fragments have recently been u

:—{{Author|Douglas Adams}}, {{hhgg}}}}