Book’s I’ve read relevant to the topics of this blog, in roughy the order I read them. I’m also an avid reader of Wired magazine and the associated website.
Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. My blogged response, and an addendum.
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Drive: the Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher
Number Freak by Derrick Niederman
What the Dog Saw and Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The next four were reviewed and analyzed in a post:
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
You Are Not A Gadget by Jason Lanier
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
Planned
Program or be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
