This book "When Things Start to Think" has been on my husband's bookshelf for years and I never thought about reading it. With recent discussions about AI, I decided to pull it off the shelf and start to read it. Reading this book, published in 1999 through the lens of 2023 eyes, I realized how prescient Dr. Neil Gershenfeld was. Through these pages, he talked about computerized fashion - such as smart watches, health/exercise meters, how the inanimate objects (computers) become animate through the information they glean and learn from us the end users.

As I read each page, my eyes appreciated more and more Dr. Gershenfeld's work, his mind, and kept wanting to read on. Now I want to read his other works. ( )

The title of this book as well as certain passages describing the 'Home of the Future was very enticing. There were too many digressions into only tangentially-related areas though. ( )

I liked this book; although I read it about 4 or 5 yeats ago and I can't remember everything in this book. I find the prospect of the "internet of things" coming to pass to be a little bit of a 2 edged sword. The nefarious aspect of this is that he is essentially writing about RFID tags on everything. His newest book is a lot cooler. Read this book to find out about a possible Big Brother future where technology can be used against the people. Read his new book, "FAB", to read about a much brighter future where technology is used to empower people. ( )