Top 10 books about high-tech

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Guardian, 10 Books

"From histories of world-conquering innovations to fiction that explores their dark side, a leading chronicler of this giddying world chooses the best guides".
By Leslie Berlin, who is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and served on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Leslie was a “Prototype” columnist for The New York Times and has commented on Silicon Valley for the Wall Street Journal, NPR, PBS, The Atlantic and Wired.Former Google chairman Eric Schmidt called publication of Troublemakers, her book exploring how Silicon Valley during the 1970s set the stage for our modern high-tech world, “a landmark event.”
She has a PhD in History from Stanford and her BA in American Studies is from Yale.

This list was originally published in 2017 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17008 From Airline Reservations To Sonic The Hedgehog Martin Campbell-Kelly 2003 British English
17008 Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 1996 American English
14901 Genentech Sally Smith Hughes 2009 Unknown English
3096 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
17008 The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2001 Unknown English
1892 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder 1981 American English
892 Neuromancer William Gibson 1984 American, Canadian English
17008 Fire In The Valley Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine 1984 American English
17008 The Ultimate History Of Video Games Steven L. Kent 2001 American English
17008 More Work For Mother Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1983 American English