What is some good nonfiction literature that I can read quickly and then name-drop in public to look smart?
nonfiction... literature?
The Secret
Look into Gass
The Bible.
>>7859700
Kamasutra
>>7859704
why not
wikipedia
>>7859700
Chomsky
Plato
Aristotle
Nietzsche
Old Testament
Confucius
Brief History of Time
Sagan
>>7859700
>name-drop in public to look smart
Just check a random wiki article
J.C.R. Licklider - Man-Computer Symbiosis
In Memoriam - J. C. R. Licklider
Ted Nelson - Computer Lib-Dream Machines
Ted Nelson - A Cosmology for a Different Computer Universe: Data Model, Mechanisms, Virtual Machine and Visualization Infrastructure
Vannevar Bush - Science is Not Enough -Memex Revisited
Wired - Gary Wolf - The Curse of Xanadu
W. Boyd Rayward - Visions of Xanadu
Claude Shannon - A Mathematical Theory of Communication
R. Buckminster Fuller - Synergetics
Wallace Wang - Steal This Computer Book 4.0
Alvin Toffler - Future Shock
Andrew Vande Moere - The Language of Cyberspace
Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown
George Orwell - 1984
Isaac Asimov - I, Robot / The Bicentennial Man
Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project - The Redesign Of A Culture
NACCCE - All Our Futures - Creativity, Culture and Education
PewResearchCenter - AI, Robotics, and The Future Of Jobs
Tracy Kidder - The Soul of a New Machine
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Caroline Klein - Futuristic: Vision of Future Living
David Graeber - Debt: the First 5,000 Years
Douglas Engelbart - Augmenting Human Intellect
Edward B. Lindaman - Thinking In The Future Tense
Edward Bulwer-Lytton - The Coming Race
Howard Rheingold - Afterword To The 1994 Edition- The Virtual Community: Homesteading On The Electronic Frontier
Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
Martin Pawley - Future Systems : The Story of Tomorrow
Maxwell Maltz - Psycho Cybernetics
The Gulag Archipelago
>>7860380
>nonfiction
>1984
>>7859700
Why don't you be a real asshole and just name drop made up non fiction books with impressive sounding titles
>Apparition Redux by Joseph Nesbitt
>The Cold Game: The Untold Battle Over Uzbekistan by Allison Lyons
etc
The Complete Manual of Suicide-Wataru Tsurumi
>>7860380
*tips*
>>7859700
read the introduction to Deleuze and Guattari's a thousand plateaus
its essentially a thought experiment of 'free' thinking, where the developments of each idea intertwine in an unpredictable and complex network of passages, connections and breaks
kinda like rats underground, or crabgrass, or pic related.
You'll basically come across as someone who is suspiciously inconsistent about being a fascist.
