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
The links to these books on Amazon are listed here

Popular posts from this blog

Mathematics model anticipates obscure biologic Mechanism Of Regulation

Horrors of Anorexia

Brown Recluse Spider Bite Pictures