History Books
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No …
Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a slee…
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
Leading scientific theorist W. Brian Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology, in a major work that …
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology …
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards an…
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it chan…
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, and…
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
O capitalismo está morto. Bem-vindos ao tecnofeudalismo. Um dos Melhores Livros do Ano para o The Financial Times Gradualmente, a partir do…
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
A mere fifteen years ago, computer nerds were seen as marginal weirdos, outsiders whose world would never resonate with the mainstream. That was b…
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
Computers are everywhere today -- at work, in the bank, in artist's studios, sometimes even in our pockets -- yet they remain to many of us object…