He did the homework. He projected the results. He wrote the book. He created the industry. And this is the book that started it all.
Engines is the futurist's version, from before there was the technical stuff.
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences , edited by Wilson and Keil I've been reading cognitive science books for five years, and it's a good thing MIT published this Encyclopedia in 1999, or I'd be really ticked-off at the fact that I needn't have bothered. Virtually everything I'd learned was in this book, and more. It's a complete college education and then some. If you're already familiar with evolutionary psychology, this book won't rock your world to its foundations - but it'll be fun to read. This is not an introductory-level book.