Not one author is a woman. I've read about 1/3 of the books, but it gives me a good list for summer reading.
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The top 25 technology books of all time
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Well said. A great resource, thanks for sharing +Lynette Young.
I guess I am doomed to live the rest of my life seeing that photo of that megalomaniac capitalist overlord.
+Douglas Fraser I would have flipped to the cover art for Snow Crash had the system let me 😉
Can a biography really be considered a technology book, though?
the steve jobs biography should be listed in "religion", rather than in "technology" 😉
(to change the picture mouseover the picture when you are adding the link, along the top you'll find < and > and X.)
terrible confession: Considered the switch PC to Mac before reading the biography of Steve Jobs and was so horrified by the manipulative hysterical spoiled jerk that the plan died
OK, maybe not "of all time." People often ask why we have "special lists." +Lynette Young, you just explained it. Again. This is a good list of (indirectly) tech-themed books, mostly written by a certain demographic for a similar demographic over the past 20 years, minus the William Gibson I think. But that would make the title too long, right? And I like Dean Takahashi and a few of the listed books so it's not that…
h/t +Brock Predovich for the share that brought me here…
OK, maybe not "of all time." People often ask why we have "special lists." +Lynette Young, you just explained it. Again. This is a good list of (indirectly) tech-themed books, mostly written by a certain demographic for a similar demographic over the past 20 years, minus the William Gibson I think. But that would make the title too long, right? And I like Dean Takahashi and a few of the listed books so it's not that…
h/t +Brock Predovich for the share that brought me here…
You might want to add Turing's Cathedral by +George Dyson to that list. This is a pretty good review of it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/07/turings-cathedral-george-dyson-review
You might want to add Turing's Cathedral by +George Dyson to that list. This is a pretty good review of it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/07/turings-cathedral-george-dyson-review
Not to spoil it for you, but the top tech book of all time is "The C programming language" by Brian Kerninghan & Dennis Ritchie. The book is a model of technical writing and inspired a whole generation of tech professionals. Nearly all of the software you use today has been written in languages derived from C, and it wouldn't stretch too far to say that C forms the geek's mental model of how a computer "thinks".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
I agree with you, Pavlos, but you have to remember that this list was created by Venture Beat which is to technology as Tiger Beat is to music.