Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

Review

I picked up this book because Bret Viktor called it, "perhaps the greatest book ever written on learning in general". The insights in this book were truly mind expanding and visionary. Decades before it became relevant, the author had some great forecasts for the future and some powerful perspectives yet to be achieved. I will probably mention this book when I mention learning for its novel ideas. While the core of the book mostly describes a specific and lengthy implementation of his ideas(turtle talk programming) that I found questionable. The introduction and concluding chapters are legendary. “What is a man so made that he can understand numbers and what is a number so made that a man can understand it?”