Books about technology

Explores both the benefits and disadvantages of the developments in global communication. The author discusses the annoyance and dangers of BlackBerrys in meeting rooms, hands-free kits in conversation, and using a phone or iPod whilst driving.

What really makes the things around us tick? Did you know that the principle behind the zip fastener also governed the building of the pyramids? Or that the dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? The inner workings of hundreds of machines and devices are explained in this fun, colourful and unique look at.

This work abandons the conventional distinctions between history and science. Diamond focuses on what ancient people were endowed with in the way of land, animals and plants, and on the confrontations between less and more advanced people to see how this led to today's inequalities.

Examines the next step in the evolutionary process of the union of human and machine. This title offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.

A panoramic novel of the latter half of the 20th century, ranging from World War II and the breaking of the Enigma code to more recent struggles for control of the Internet. From the author of Snowcrash .

Charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything has a place - are upended. This book shows how people can reap rewards from the rise of digital knowledge.

From the acclaimed author of Hey Nostradamus! comes a wonderful comic novel with more one-liners than a decade of Woody Allen films, about scramble for love and success in a brave new world...

This work previews what the author predicts will be a new shift in techno-culture spurred by advances in mobile communication, providing examples of current indicators and citing the technology's vulnerabilities.

Tells the story of Case, a burnt-out software cowboy forced to do one last job in the infinite bytes of cyberspace.

Written by the acclaimed Silicon Valley journalist who co-founded Wired and founded The Industry Standard , this book explains how the search industry is changing the way we live in profound and unpredictable ways. It contains interviews with some of the biggest names at the top companies including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Written by the author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , this book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. It discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that make unlimited findability possible, and explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society.

The NSA's invincible code breaking machine encounters a code that it cannot break. The agency calls in its head cryptographer Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power.

Henry Petroski looks at the pencil and cites it as a prime example of elegant design and engineering with much to say about the world of modern technology. He includes facts such as that a single pencil could draw a line 70 miles long, and that Hemingway and Steinbeck wrote novels in pencil.

In the future the only relief from the sea of logos is the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? But now a strange computer virus, called Snow Crash, is striking down hackers, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last hope. This book is shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

This work dissects our unceasing daily struggle to squeeze as much as we can - but never enough - into the 1440 minutes of each day. Speed is the key strategy for saving time, and James Gleick shows us how in just about every area, speed has become the experience we all have in common.

Techgnosis uncovers the hidden mystical and religious impulses that animate our contemporary obsessions with media and technology. It is a wild ride, chock full of curlous characters, esoteric information and visionary insights. The book tells the story of the alchemical origins of electricity, the occult dimension of computer games, and the Zen of cybernetics. It reminds us of the irrational, ...