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What the Dormouse Said

John Markoff

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Zelphyr
It's quite old and so doesn't include the rise of the Internet and subsequent innovations but, Accidental Empires is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Empires Where Wizards Stay Up Late - on the creation of the Internet The Soul of a New Machine - On computing in the 70's and 80's The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison - On the rise of Oracle (also has the best title) Masters of Doom - A history of id Software What The Dormouse Said - How the 60's counterculture influenced computing The New New Thing - Follows Jim Clark around while he creates SGI, Netscape, etc...
david
- What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff - Alongside Night, J Neil Schulman, - Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson - Anything by Doug Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box is a good one for business/entrepreneurship - The Dubliners, James Joyce - The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert Bringhurst