1. Insanely Great: The Life and Times of
Macintosh, the Machine that Changed Everything
Steven Levy, Penguin Books
2. Hackers
Steven Levy, Delta Books
An fascinating character
history of the early computer revolution.
3. The Victorian Internet
Tom Sandage, Walker and
Co.
A quick and relevant
history of the rise of the telegraph.
4. Fifth Generation Fallacy
J. Marshall Unger, Oxford
University Press
Problems with linguistics and
Asian computerization; Japanese stretch for artificial intelligence.
5. The Social Impact of Computers
Richard Rosenberg, Academic
Press, Inc.