Odd Lots

Essays, Ideas, Parody and Memoir from a Contrarian Optimist

By: Jeff Duntemann

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Paperback | 16 June 2021

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236 Pages

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Jeff Duntemann began writing about technology in the mid-1970s, at the dawn of the microcomputer era. In his role as a technical magazine editor and early blogger, he wrote literally thousands of essays, editorials, blog posts, and humor pieces, many of which exist only in paper magazines from decades ago. In response to requests from his fans, he's collected the best of his non-technical writing, and thrown in a little memoir to cast some light on the odd man behind these truly odd lots. Some highlights:

His favorite writing tips
His prediction of Wikipedia in 1994
His prediction of selfies in 1983
How nanotechnology might eventually create computers as small as dirt particles
How dogs helped early humans survive their genocidal impulses, making civilization possible
What tweener boys learn from monster movies
The challenges of truly long-horizon thinking
The benefits of contrarian thinking
Why tribalism may be the worst problem facing humanity
Where anger came from and how it kills
What it means to be truly free

...and much else, including a number of items never before published

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