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Tech & Future

Silicon, software, and the companies steering both — plus the harder question of what happens next.

26 books

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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It Kashmir Hill · 2023 · read Sep 2026Google and Facebook developed similar technology and held it back. Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story by Jeffrey Kluger Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story Jeffrey Kluger · 2025 · read Sep 2026Mercury put Americans in space and Apollo put them on the Moon, but the program in between is where NASA learned how. Biological War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen Biological War: A Scenario Annie Jacobsen · 2026 · read Jul 2026Take the minute-by-minute format of Nuclear War: A Scenario and swap the bomb for a recombinant, antibiotic-resistant plague with… Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou · 2018 · read Mar 2026Theranos raised more than $700 million on a blood test that never worked, and the company knew it. Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future Dan Wang · 2025 · read Jan 2026China is an engineering state that builds relentlessly, and the United States is a lawyerly society that's good at stopping… The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip Stephen Witt · 2025 · read Nov 2025From a founding in a Denny's to a brief moment in June 2024 as the world's most valuable company, Nvidia got there on Jensen… The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma Mustafa Suleyman · 2023 · read Jun 2025The coming decade could be the most productive in history. Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company by Patrick McGee Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company Patrick McGee · 2025 · read Jun 2025Apple's move to China sounds like a story about outsourcing. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs Luis Elizondo · 2024 · read May 2025According to Luis Elizondo, the Pentagon has known about UFOs since the 1940s and hidden from you that craft under non-human… The Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger The Age of AI and Our Human Future Henry Kissinger · 2021 · read Apr 2025AI is a philosophical and practical challenge on a scale not seen since the start of the Enlightenment, in the view of Kissinger,… Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment Jason Schreier · 2024 · read Apr 2025Somewhere between the 2008 Activision merger and the 2021 California lawsuit, Blizzard lost its independence and much of the… On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything Nate Silver · 2024 · read Mar 2025"Few places in American life attract a broader cross-section of society," Silver writes of casinos, and the book opens at one in… The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Jeff Goodell · 2023 · read Oct 2024Your body, the work you do, the city you live in, your food and the diseases that reach you are all being reshaped by extreme… Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari · 2024 · read Oct 2024Information isn't the same thing as truth. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers Andy Greenberg · 2019 · read Aug 2024Most hacking you hear about steals data or spreads disinformation. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century Dmitri Alperovitch · 2024 · read Jun 2024Picture a Chinese invasion of Taiwan just after the 2028 US presidential election, which is where the book begins. The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency Annie Jacobsen · 2015 · read Apr 2024DARPA was a Cold War answer to Soviet technological advances, created under Eisenhower in 1958. The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights) by Harvard Business Review The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights) Harvard Business Review · 2021 · read Nov 2023Work from anywhere, AI on the team, inclusion and purpose: this short Harvard Business Review collection asks how your… Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better Jennifer Pahlka · 2023 · read Nov 2023Government technology doesn't fail because the people in it are stupid or evil, or for lack of money. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson Elon Musk Walter Isaacson · 2023 · read Oct 2023How far past Elon Musk can you see after two years at his side? Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency Andy Greenberg · 2022 · read Jun 2023Cryptocurrency was never as anonymous as the criminals using it believed. Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again Johann Hari · 2022 · read Feb 2023If you've ever blamed yourself for not being able to concentrate, Hari's case is that it isn't a personal failing. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology Chris Miller · 2022 · read Feb 2023Oil is the resource you'd expect great powers to fight over. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry Jacquie McNish · 2015 · read Dec 2022An engineer who grew up building radios in Windsor, Ontario, and an aggressive dealmaker from Seaforth. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari · 2018 · read Jul 2022After Sapiens on the past and Homo Deus on the future, Yuval Noah Harari turns to the present you're living in. Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari · 2015 · read Jul 2022Obesity now kills more people than starvation, old age more than disease, and suicide more than murder.

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