Ubiquitous Manovich
I highly recommend Lev Manovich.
I like to think about the human need to think linearly. And I wonder is it symptomatic that data base is just becoming the biggest thing in our social life.
I also remember reading a book written by Dostojevski in the 19-th century where he asks you (at 20-th page) to go on the 80-th page read to the end of the chapter and come back.
No wonder that Einstein said that he learned more from Dostojevski than from Gauss.
