The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Simon, Princeton University Press (1996). Read this not only because it offers a superb education in the economics of basic resources and free enterprise, but also as a tribute to a great American.
Gilder Technology Report, available from Gilder Technology Group, Inc. and Forbes, Inc., Monument Mills, P. O. Box 660, Housa-tonic, MA 01236. This monthly newsletter is a remarkable window to the expanding world of the telecosm and computer technology.
With 13 million North Americans now shopping on the Internet (a number that is increasing exponentially), personal computers outselling television sets, and information storage and transfer costs diving toward zero, this is a world that no one can afford to neglect.
In the February 1998 issue, George Gilder reports that 13% of retailers are now offering direct sales on the Internet, while 54% now have some presence there. Internet advertising tripled last year.
Any book from the Self-Teaching Home School Curriculum for ages 6 to 18 on 22 CD-ROMs available from the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, 2251 Dick George Road, Cave Junction, OR 97523, for $195 postage paid.
Yes, I know that most Access to Energy subscribers are over 18 years of age. But does this really mean that we must pretend to spend all of our reading hours with technical books and related news?
In designing this curriculum, we picked the best 250-plus selections we could from the entirety of books published in English during the past 400 years. About 60 percent of these books are currently out of print. They are, however, available on these CDs as 600 dot per inch image files. So, when you print one with your laser printer, it has the same look and feel as the original.
If you insist on feeling intellectual, there are lots of complicated offerings from the great masters. Truthfully, I like to read myself to sleep at night with Horatio Alger books. Jules Verne is fine, too.
Seriously, these books were written by many of the greatest writers and most profound thinkers during the past four centuries. No student should miss them, and most adults will find much in them of value,
