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The most-recommended technology titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom · 2014
16 recommenders
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Steve Krug · 2013
14 recommenders
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil · 2006
13 recommenders
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell · 2019
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Peter H. Diamandis · 2012
11 recommenders
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman · 2023
10 recommenders
Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. · 1995
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham · 2004
8 recommenders
Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
Ian Goodfellow · 2016
Working in Public
Nadia Eghbal · 2020
7 recommenders
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder · 2000
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy · 2001
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Alan Cooper · 2004
6 recommenders
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
Janelle Shane · 2019
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly · 2010
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson · 1996
Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
Richard W. Hamming · 1997
Cognitive Surplus
Clay Shirky · 2010
5 recommenders
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda · 2018
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Princeton Science Library, 33)
Richard P. Feynman · 1988
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier · 2018
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins · 2005
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand · 2009
Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
Hannah Fry · 2019
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt & David Thomas · 1999
Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte · 1992
4 recommenders
Quantum Computing since Democritus
Scott Aaronson · 2013
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold · 2000
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Ray Kurzweil · 2024
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman · 2007
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Christopher Bail · 2021
The Search
John Battelle · 2005
Principles of Optics: 60th Anniversary Edition
Max Born · 2019
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition
Steve McConnell · 2004
3 recommenders
The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1
Donald E. Knuth · 1997
The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan · 1988
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte · 1998
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
James Barrat · 2013
The Little Schemer - 4th Edition
Daniel P. Friedman · 1995
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
Steve Krug · 2009
How the Internet Happened
Brian McCullough · 2018
Elements of Information Theory 2nd Edition (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)
Thomas M. Cover · 2006
The Non-Designer's Design Book
Robin Williams · 2004
Sandy Hook
Elizabeth Williamson · 2022
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil · 2012
The Knowledge
Lewis Dartnell · 2015
Wild Fell
Lee Schofield · 2022
Rocket Propulsion Elements
George P. Sutton · 2010
2 recommenders
Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook
Dan Cederholm · 2009
Regenesis
George Monbiot · 2022
The Little Kingdom
Michael Moritz · 1984
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble · 2018
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Eric Evans · 2003
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
Jeff Kosseff · 2019
User Friendly
Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant · 2019
Ending Aging
Aubrey de Grey · 2007
Python Machine Learning
Sebastian Raschka · 2015
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Martin Henz · 2022
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Jaron Lanier · 2010
On Web Typography
Jason Santa Maria · 2014
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Alan Cooper · 2007
You Don't Know JS Yet
Kyle Simpson · 2020
DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation
Edgar H. Schein · 2004
Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte · 2006
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
Bill Nye · 2015
How to Teach Programming (And Other Things)
Greg Wilson · 2017
Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Guidelines
Jeff Johnson PhD · 2020
Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Practice in Python (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics Series)
Laura Graesser · 2019
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... Where is Everybody?
Stephen Webb · 2002
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani · 2013
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram · 2023
Normal Accidents
Charles Perrow · 1999
Getting Real
Basecamp
The Craft of Scientific Writing
Michael Alley · 1998
The Chip
T. R. Reid · 2001
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger · 1993
The Little Schemer
Daniel P. Friedman & Matthias Felleisen · 1995
Surviving AI
Calum Chace · 2015
The Algorithm Design Manual
Steven S. Skiena · 1997
Artificial Intelligence
Melanie Mitchell · 2019
Norwegian Wood
Lars Mytting · 2015
Hacker's Delight
Henry S. Warren Jr. · 2002
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing & Releasing Web Products
Randy J. Hunt · 2013
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Don Tapscott · 2016
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell · 2003
How Charts Lie
Alberto Cairo · 2019
Burn Your Portfolio: Stuff they don't teach you in design school, but should (Voices That Matter)
Michael Janda · 2013
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin · 2008
Direct From Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry
Michael Dell · 2006
How to Break Up With Your Phone
Catherine Price · 2018
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly Weinersmith · 2017
Structures: or Why Things Don't Fall Down
J. E. Gordon · 2003
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))
Martin Fowler · 1999
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The Art of Readable Code
Dustin Boswell · 2011
Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
Michael Hartl · 2020
Too Big To Know
David Weinberger · 2012
The Four-Dimensional Human
Laurence Scott · 2016
The Fourth Age
Byron Reese · 2018
Andrew Hunt · 1999
