The electronics industry changes so quickly that every engineer simply must be a bit of a futurist, if only to understand what to study to maintain valuable career skills. Here's a couple of books about subjects I think will revolutionize our industry in the next few years or decades. No educated person can afford to be ignorant about these concepts. Now the bloom is off so you rarely hear it mentioned, yet chaos theory is finding applications in all fields. I see it as one more nail in the coffin of Descartian reductionism.
Software magazines abound in articles about genetic algorithms.
I was left in awe, but wanting some technical examples. This is cool stuff. It's funny, slightly depressing in it's cynical accuracy. On those depressing demo delivery days when nothing works you'll at least have a good quip or two to ease the pressure. Back to home page.