I am though the first 50 pages (chapters 1 & 2) and I finding it very hard to get going. Books that make me continuously look up lots of words in the dictionary to get their meaning really slows down my comprehension. It also takes away from my enjoyment of learning what they are trying to teach me. Boy, I just wanted to get that off my chest. I have felt this a few times this semester, but I really appreciate that I am being stretched and learning new so many new concepts. There is so much to learn from the material in this class; it would help if they used straightforward English. Drucker was the master of the simplification of language. He was amazingly profound and did not need to use any extraneous pontification or wordsmithery to make his work credible.
Keywords: Sciences of the Artifical
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I agree that this is a very interesting book and is different from what we have read in our journals and other texts, but has way too many words to look up. I think I stopped after heuristic, just so I could try to stay with the flow of the book. Our journals are even worse. Not only do they use specialized terminology without explanation, but the don't explain the statistics either. I recognize a few words from the GRE test, but not most of them.