https://medium.com/@NautilusMag/the-book-no-one-read-da967b030c4a
"Lem was a polymath, a voracious reader who devoured not only the
classic literary canon, but also a plethora of research journals,
scientific periodicals, and popular books by leading researchers. His
genius was in standing on the shoulders of scientific giants to distill
the essence of their work, flavored with bittersweet insights and
thought experiments that linked their mathematical abstractions to deep
existential mysteries and the nature of the human condition. For this
reason alone, reading Lem is an education, wherein one may learn the
deep ramifications of breakthroughs such as Claude Shannon’s development
of information theory, Alan Turing’s work on computation, and John von
Neumann’s exploration of game theory. Much of his best work entailed
constructing analyses based on logic with which anyone would agree, then
showing how these eminently reasonable premises lead to astonishing
conclusions."
Stanislaw Lem is deservedly one of the greats of Science Fiction, and
it's well worth reading his books such as
The Cyberiad,
The
Futurological Congress,
The Star Diaries and
The Tales of Pirx the
Pilot. But this is a work newly available in translation which I am
now interested in finding!
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
