http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#ia <P><a href="memory.html">Memory</a>. Socrates and the Sophists. Starting education early. Progressive and esp. Montessori education. Use of machines &agrave; la <a href="wm-calvin.html">Calvin</a> or <a href="ashby.html">Ashby.</a> Drugs don't seem to work (yet). Developmental or genetic tampering. In <a href="science-fiction.html">science fiction.</a> <ul>See: <li><a href="ashby.html">W. Ross Ashby</a>, <cite>Introduction to Cybernetics</cite> [see the last chapters, on "amplification of selection"] <li>John Brunner, <cite>Shockwave Rider</cite> and <cite>Stand on Zanzibar</cite> <li>Andy Clark, <cite>Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence</cite> <li>Barbara Ehrenreich, <cite>Kipper's Game</cite> <li>Stephen Jay Gould, <cite>The Mismeasure of Man</cite> <li>J. B. S. Haldane, <cite><a href="../Daedalus.html">Daedalus</a></cite> <li>Seymour Papert, <cite>The Children's Machine</cite> [About as good as any book on education funding in part by Nintendo could possibly be.] <li>Plato, especially <cite>Meno</cite> <li><a href="popper.html">Karl Popper</a>, <cite>The Open Society and Its Enemies,</cite> esp. vol. I </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Ashby, "Design for an Intelligence Amplifier" <li>Seymour Papert, <cite>Mindstorms</cite> <li>Olaf Stapeldon, <cite>Sirius</cite> </ul>