Nerds 2.0.1
by Stephen Segaller |
Fire in the Valley
by Paul Freiberger |
Engines of the Mind
by Joel N. Shurkin |
Computer
by Martin Campbell-Kelly |
ENIAC
by Scott McCartney |
Accidental empires
by Robert X. Cringely | 
Dealers of Lightning
by Michael Hiltzik | 
The Code Book
by Simon Singh | 
The Soul of a New Machine
by Tracy Kidder | 
A Man on the Moon
by Andrew Chaikin | 
Cod
by Mark Kurlansky | 
Salt
by Mark Kurlansky | 
The Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough | 
Hackers
by Steven Levy | 
The Cracking Code Book
by Simon Singh |
Changes in the Land
by William Cronon | 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson | 
Fingerprints of the Gods
by Graham Hancock | 
The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin | 
Magicians of the Gods
by Graham Hancock |
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs--the culture being counter- and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It's a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and '70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap'n Crunch, est and LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one of the smartest technology writers around.