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Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Technology Books and Novels?

Posted by msmash on from the share-share-share dept.

It can be a nonfiction book, or a fictional narrative where technology plays a key role. I recently started to read 'The Rise of the Robots' by Martin Ford. It talks about how robots are threatening mass unemployment more than they ever did before. I also found Andrew Blum's 'Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet' quite insightful. I would like to read 'The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers'.

What are some of your favorite tech-centric books? And which book are you currently reading, or recently finished?

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  1. Martian Chronicles by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Martian Chronicles are at the top of my list. Maybe not exactly realistic, but a great read.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  2. I vote for The Cuckoo's Egg by sconeu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Cliff Stoll's account of how he tracked the CCC hackers is a very good read.

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    General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
  3. Richard Stallman by 101percent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stallman's Free Software, Free Society if you're too lazy to connect to gnu.org/philosophy. Say what you will, but rms is simply a legend and too important to overlook whether or not you agree or disagree with his views.

  4. Re:Godel Escher Bach : hofstadter by ArmchairAstronomer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yet another vote for Gödel, Escher & Bach. I was blown away when I read it. It is now my favorite non-fiction book by far. I go back and re-read at least one chapter every year just for fun.

  5. Surely You Must Be Joking Mr. Feynman by hambone142 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An entertaining book on Richard Feynman's pranks and interests.