The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau
Author: Edward Regis, Ed Regis
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ISBN: 0393021238
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (May, 2003)
Sales Rank: 191,051
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Rating: 4 out of 5
Well Written and Researched Complexity and Santa Fe Hype
This is a well researched, well written, interesting book about scientists in Santa Fe developing entrepreneurial start-ups based on complexity science. The science and business combination is fun and wide ranging. It belongs to a genre of books about the Santa Fe Institute, of which Michael Waldrop's Complexity is one of the earliest and best. Many of the characters are the same in both books. My criticism of the Info Mesa is that much of it reads like publicity hype. It overstates the scientific accomplishments of the Santa Fe Institute and the importance of complexity research. It overstates the health of the tech business climate in Santa Fe. It romanticizes the people who work at SFI. It romanticizes the town in which they work. The descriptions of Santa Fe are so over the top as to be laughable to those of us who live here. Not even our tourist brochures hype Santa Fe so well. So, in conclusion, the Info Mesa's story isn't really so. All of you should just stay home, and leave Santa Fe to those of us who got here before you. ;-) Similar Products
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