I have read it. As an R&D engineer and an objectivist, I have long been interested in the relationships between concepts and innovation / technology. In the philosophy of innovation in general. I found many of the observations in this book useful, insightful and in agreement with my own ideas. However the author goes off the rails at the end of the book when he begins to talk about technology (plural) as some kind of collective entity that evolves and will one day develop self-awareness. It sounds similar to this thing called “the singularity” that I have heard referenced by new age mystics, on the rare occasion that I have had the misfortune to encounter such a person, or their writings.
Despite all that, I found this book valuable and interesting. Enough to read it twice — but the second time I skipped the sci-fi ending.
Another very good book on the nature of technology and its evolution is “How We Got To Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World,” by Steven Johnson (http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Got-Now-Innovations-ebook/dp/B00INIXU5I). In some ways this one is even better than “The Nature of Technology.”
