Technology Books

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  • Stalking Gates

    In "The Plot to Get Bill Gates," Gary Rivlin provides a much-needed outsider's view of the Baron of Redmond -- and the rogues of Silicon Valley.
  • What will it take to survive the Web's evolution?

    In "Digital Darwinism," Evan Schwarz predicts which online business models will prove the fittest.
  • Is the Internet the new heaven?

    "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" examines the spiritual realm of non-physical space -- and finds that Giotto painted VR frescoes.
  • "Seek!": Rudy Rucker yearns for gnarliness

    All that exists in that edge between order and disorder is gnarly and delightful, in the latest essays from the sci-fi writer.
  • Searching for silicon soul

    "The Nudist on the Late Shift" and "The Silicon Boys" sift the valley's culture for something more than wealth and greed.
  • Web wars

    Did Bill Gates beat Netscape fair and square?
  • Privacy pleas

    Amitai Etzioni's "The Limits of Privacy" sees civil libertarians as a danger and government as the solution to all our problems.
  • Why Bill Gates still doesn't get the Net

    While his new book "Business @ the Speed of Thought" peddles PCs as the ultimate corporate intelligence system, the industry is mutating right under his nose.
  • The king of computer labs

    Xerox PARC invented the modern PC but couldn't sell it. A definitive new history explores why.
  • We were burning

    A new book tells us to forget about Japan Inc. -- Japanese entrepreneurs led the high-tech consumer-electronic revolution.
  • The return of the queen of cyberpunk

    Science fiction novelist Pat Cadigan watches her imagined futures turn real
  • Generation byte

    "Extra Life" recalls what growing up with computers once was like -- and complains about what it has become
  • Social engineering, Web-style

    How do online communities work? One veteran -- Salon's Cliff Figallo -- writes a book with some answers.
  • The ghosts in our machines

    Erik Davis' new book 'TechGnosis' traces the secret mysticism that motivates our love-affair with technology.
  • Of math prodigies and canine cosmonauts

    'Habitus' mixes a dab of literary theory with a dose of the fantastic.
  • The Microsoft defile

    'The Microsoft File' is all the dirt on Microsoft that fits between covers.
  • Is cyberpunk still breathing?

    Two new science-fiction novels take a stab at an increasingly moribund genre.
  • New life for old buzzwords

    'Interactive Excellence' argues for new standards to make sense of the media onslaught.
  • Why Kids Don't Need Computers

    Don't feel guilty about not buying your toddler a Pentium, a new book argues: You may be doing the kid a favor.
  • World war 3.0

    A new book on futuristic 'cyberwar' has an old-fashioned agenda.
  • Consciousness dethroned

    The mind's I only thinks it's in charge, argues 'The User Illusion.'
  • Net freedom ring

    Mike Godwin, legal pit bull for free speech online, tells his war stories in the new book 'Cyber Rights.'
  • Bilge from Bill G.

    "The Secret Diary of Bill Gates" recycles yesterday's Web humor.
  • Money for nothing

    Burn Rate' captivatingly portrays a Net industry built on a con game -- but its author is playing, too. Review of Michael Wolff's 'Burn Rate.'
  • Self-combustion

    A veteran of the Internet's 'gold rush' years takes a hard look at 'Burn Rate.'
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