Top five, summaries easy enough to find via Amazon: - Turings’s Cathedral - The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - A Mind at Play - The Victorian Internet - Dawn of the New Everything Plus two that I haven’t read but hear amazing things: - Mindstorms - Dream Machine
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- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
- Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
- The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age