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Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet
by Charles Arthur
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: KoganPage, 2012
It’s 1998 and the digital world takes shape. Into this maelstrom of change came three companies: …

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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
by Vaclav Smil
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
The greatest technical discontinuity in history took place between 1867 and 1914. This …

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Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines
by Vaclav Smil
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2010
The many books on globalization published over the past few years range …

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Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson
New York: Pantheon Books, 2012
“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old …

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I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
by Douglas Edwards
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to an Edsel. In …

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Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History
by Siegfried Giedion
New York: W. W. Norton, 1948
A study of the evolution of mechanization in the last century and a half, its effects on …

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On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
by Scott Huler
New York: Rodale, 2010
In our daily lives, we’re surrounded by wires, pipes, …

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The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines
by Bruce Mazlish
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993
From Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to current films like The Terminator about menacing androids, writers have expressed …

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Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
by David E. Nye
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990
How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana — the Lynds’ new iconic …

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A History of Modern Computing
by Paul E. Ceruzzi
Cambridge, Massachussetts: MIT Press, 1998
This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the advent of the …