Steve Jobs
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. —Apple’s “Think Different” commercial, 1997.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
“The most interesting book ever written about Google” (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword.
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The computer and the Internet are among the most important inventions of our era, but few people know who created them. There were a lot of fascinating people involved, some ingenious and a few even geniuses. This is the story of these pioneers, hackers, inventors, and entrepreneurs—who they were, how their minds worked, and what made them so creative. It’s also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.
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A New History of Modern Computing
How the computer became universal.
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Where computing might go next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past.
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America.
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Silicon Politics
Silicon Valley’s mythology of independence to the contrary, politics and government are absolutely central to its story.
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Hiding In Plain Sight – The Secret History of Silicon Valley
Presentation by Steve Blank, Dec. 2007 & Nov. 2008
Premise of “The Secret History of Silicon Valley” is that WWII was the First Electronic War and it was the wartime urgency combined with required secrecy to create systems to counter the threat of Nazi Germany that primarily lead to the development of what is known today as Silicon Valley. The point being that popular culture and history does not include this aspect in the history of Silicon Valley, but it is nonetheless important to know this history. Further, the projects that Mr. Blank outlines were conducted in plain sight.
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