A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History

The traditional metaphors for human progress that have been coopted from other sciences-- economics, geology, and engineering-- and do not adequately portray what exactly man hath wrought. In this book, De Landa works through history three seperate times and discusses-- through the use of terms like bifucation and singularities how he believes it did progress....

I really like this book: I think that it is definately a text whose time has come..... BUT.... having read both this and War... I want to warn readers of their one failing-- the author-- because of his broad sweep-- seems to occasionally make errors in the myriad of references that he makes (the book is meticulously footnoted, to its credit). Though this is largely an editors problem, it is bad.... something that someone who is going at things fast-and-furious and from a broad sweep is likely to have happen....

It doesnt blight the whole. This is a must read.... though fans of traditional disciplines might not find a whole lot to like about with it (and might find a lot more along the lines of my above point....)