A Brief History of the Future
John Naughton
Chronicles key developments if the Internet -- very easy and enjoyable read
A Man Called Intrepid
By William Stephenson
The book focuses on the intelligence efforts during world war 2. What a fascinating and inspiring world. The main focus is on William Stephenson (code-named Intrepid)... I learned a great deal. The content was compelling.
Accidental Empires
Robert X. Cringely
All the egos of the PC age -- easy read
Dealers of Lightning
Michael A. Hiltzik
Xerox PARC at one point had an embarrassingly large number of super talents of the computer and communications world… this is the story of the organization… outstanding
High Noon
Karen Southwick
Sun Microsystem saga
Insanely Great
Steven Levey
The story of the PC revolving around Steve Jobs and Apple
Inside Intel
Tim Jackson
Great great history piece on Intel
Microcosm
George Gilder
One of the most interesting and thorough pieces ever written about how the semiconductor world developed
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
A tribute to one of the heroes of the PC age… JCR Licklider
The HP Way
David Packard
The story of Hewlett Packard from David Packard's eyes
The Search
John Battelle
A wonderful review of the history of search and Google's role
in it.
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Pulitzer prize winner about actually getting a mini-computer to market…
The Qualcomm Equation
David Mock
Good chronological review of the qualcomm story and more importantly an
analysis of the extraordinary brilliant achievement in creating an
entire
ecosystem in order to get the cdma technology adopted...