Tech

The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
 
 
Eli Pariser’s concept of the filter bubble is a metaphor: he fears we’re increasingly exposed only to information that software has chosen for us in response to how we have behaved online in the past…

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
 
What’s the most important story of our time? Global warming? The industrialisation of China…

Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft by Jim Clark
 
The stock market flotation of Netscape in the summer of 1995 made all the front pages and network news shows, alerting anyone who hadn’t been paying attention, to the dot com boom…

Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology by Charles Ferguson
 
With hindsight, tech change looks like a story of serial revolutions. But at any one time, things seem pretty stable and it’s surprisingly hard to spot those revolutions until they’re part of history…