10 Great Tech Books
From the July issue of IEEE Spectrum, below are 10 great general-interest books about technology.
- The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski
- Mirror Worlds; or, The Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How it Will Happen and What it Will Mean by David Gelernter
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing by David Kahn
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes