How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
By: Brian McCullough
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of…
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1. How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
By: Stephen Richard Witt
4.24
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime?How Music Got Free is a riveting stor… read more
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2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
By: Charles Petzold
4.39
Format: 396 pages, Paperback
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CO… read more
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"Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick."-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
"Yes, the earth is a massive conductor of electricity, but it can also be viewed as both a source of electrons and a repository for electrons. The earth is to electrons as an ocean is to drops of wate…"-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
"Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carry…"-Charles Petzold, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
3. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
By: Michael A. Hiltzik
4.13
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review March 1999 While Gates, Jobs, and the other big boys of Silicon Valley ar… read more
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- computer science
- nonfiction
- software
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4. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
By: James Dale Davidson , William Rees-Mogg
4.05
Format: None pages, Paperback
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoningbring to light bo… read more
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5. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By: Jon Gertner
4.14
Format: 152 pages,
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs--officially, the research… read more
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6. Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
By: Fred Kaplan
3.00
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House polic… read more
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7. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
8. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
9. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
By: Sebastian Mallaby
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more
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"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
10. Doom Guy: Life in First Person
By: John Romero
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero Jo… read more
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11. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
By: Fei-Fei Li
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more
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12. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
By: Taylor Lorenz
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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- audiobook
- internet
- history
- nonfiction
- business
- technology
13. The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.23
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
How do you thrive in an unknown future? When you can’t see past the world we have now, look to vis… read more
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- business
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14. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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15. Cable Cowboy
By: Mark Robichaux
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An inside look at a cable titan and his industry John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung he… read more
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- history
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16. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
By: Matthew L. Ball
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ― United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China ( Wall Street Journal, … read more
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17. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By: Safiya Umoja Noble
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit… read more
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"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
18. The Network State: How To Start a New Country
By: Balaji S. Srinivasan
4.00
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we u… read more
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19. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
By: Brian McCullough
4.28
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of… read more
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20. Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
By: Adam Fisher
4.09
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
"This is the most important book on Silicon Valley I've read in two decades. It will take us all ba… read more
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