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What are your favorite books about the history and future of the internet (incl. Web3) and computing? I'm looking for some new ones. What I've read so far:
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The Master Switch How the Internet Happened Hard Drive (out of print) Speeding the Net (out of print)
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I really enjoyed Dealers of Lightning about the xerox park days
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"The Dream Machine" - M. Mitchell Waldrop republished by Stripe press Stunningly well written. Covers J.C Licklider, history of his road to funding the initial internet, and as a result hoovers in all of damn near every key figure of that golden era of early compute.
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I thought Metaverse by Matthew Ball was a pretty decent overview. It even mentions the roll of blockchains and decentralization
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Fiction: Neuromancer by William Gibson Non-fiction: Out of Control by Kevin Kelly (executive editor of Wired)
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In addition to Waldrop’s book already recommended, Baxter Hines _Digital Finance_ Past + future How the internet happened and master switch also good
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Chip War is fantastic https://warpcast.com/morereese/0x62dc49
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Not exactly what you’re asking about but 2 novels that influenced my perspective about tech and the internet: Purity by Jonathan Franzen The Circle by Dave Eggers
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Some relevant recs here https://patrickcollison.com/svhistory
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I’m feeling Lucky - memoir by Douglas Edwards, google employee 59, first “ non-technical” hire.
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I am reading the surrender experiment, founder of webmd. Interestingly, contrary to work hard party hard culture that we know of. Michael (founder) attributes much of success to meditation. I think that's the secret for web3 as well. Especially to keep up with the rapid evolution in an increasingly distracted world.
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Revolution in the Valley. It's print version for this site https://www.folklore.org/ It felt good and different to hear first hand stories from the different people who first hand worked on it
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Innovators by Walter Isaacson Starts way back to the beginning with Ada Lovelace!
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Crypto by Steven Levy Covers history of cryptography incl pubkey crypto, cypherpunks, govt controls on crypto deployment/research
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