Bit Literacy (by Mark Hurst)

From time to time I browse Kindle books that are available for free download, and acquire them. However it’s often many months, sometimes years before I actually read them. One such book is ‘Bit Literacy’, which Amazon tells me I downloaded in April 2011.  I had not heard of the author, Mark Hurst, and it’s only in my recent travels that the title intrigued me, and I read the whole book on a flight.

That is to say, I read the introduction and the first couple of chapters in full. After that,...