Ghost in the Wires
by Kevin Mitnick |
iWoz
by Steve Wozniak | 
Future Crimes
by Marc Goodman | 
Blackbird
by Jennifer Lauck | 
Still Waters
by Jennifer Lauck |
Over the Top
by Jonathan Van Ness | 
Dead End Gene Pool
by Wendy Burden | 
The Glass Cage
by Nicholas Carr | 
My Own Two Feet
by Beverly Cleary | 
Disrupted
by Dan Lyons | 
Myself When Young
by Daphne Du Maurier | 
In Spite of Myself
by Christopher Plummer |
Then Again
by Diane Keaton | 
The Hilliker Curse
by James Ellroy | 
My Mother Was Nuts
by Penny Marshall | 
Life in Code
by Ellen Ullman | 
My Life as a Quant
by Emanuel Derman | 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman | 
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren | 
Better
by Atul Gawande |
Here is a candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business out of a live-work loft in San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch. Immersed in the abstract world of information, algorithms, and networks, she would like to give in to the seductions of the programmer's world, where "weird logic dreamers" like herself live "close to the machine." Still, she is keenly aware that body and soul are not mechanical: desire, love, and the need to communicate face to face don't easily fit into lines of code or clicks in a Web browser. At every turn, she finds she cannot ignore the social and philosophical repercussions of her work. As Ullman sees it, the cool world of cyberculture is neither the death of civilization nor its salvation - it is the vulnerable creation of people who are not so sure of just where they're taking us all.