Art History of Electronics ∞ AI ∞ Fractals ∞ The Solar System ∞ Robotics ∞ Information Design

If you go to Maker Faire, I would <strong>strongly</strong> recommend seeing Megan Prelinger speak about her new book: ">From the Electron to the Solar System, an Art History of Electronics". She has a great mind, and pulled from a lot of rare resources you would only find at the Prelinger Library. If you mention that you are a member of Sudo Room, she will be thrilled. ;]

About the Prelinger Library: She and her husband (Rick Prelinger, the film archivist) founded it. It is insane. They specifically seek rare books and ephemera (maps, postcards, zines,...), on topics range from utopianism and anarchism to land management and human geography. They are also on the light side of the IP/open knowledge debate (they go out of their way to note that their library is "appropriation-friendly").

They're very interesting people to meet if you haven't already, and would be happy to meet you during library open hours, which are Wednesdays 1-8p at Rm. #215, 301 8th Street, SF. More info at <http://prelingerlibrary.org/>