Book Topic: Tech History

A Brief History of the Future
John Naughton
Chronicles key developments if the Internet -- very easy and enjoyable read

Accidental Empires
Robert X. Cringely
All the egos of the PC age -- easy read

Dealers of Lightning
Michael A. Hiltzik
Xerox PARC at one point had an embarrassingly large number of super talents of the computer and communications world… this is the story of the organization… outstanding

High Noon
Karen Southwick
Sun Microsystem saga

Insanely Great
Steven Levey
The story of the PC revolving around Steve Jobs and Apple

Inside Intel
Tim Jackson
Great great history piece on Intel

Microcosm
George Gilder
One of the most interesting and thorough pieces ever written about how the semiconductor world developed

The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
A tribute to one of the heroes of the PC age… JCR Licklider

The HP Way
David Packard
The story of Hewlett Packard from David Packard's eyes

The Search
John Battelle
A wonderful review of the history of search and Google's role in it.

The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Pulitzer prize winner about actually getting a mini-computer to market…

The Qualcomm Equation
David Mock
Good chronological review of the qualcomm story and more importantly an analysis of the extraordinary brilliant achievement in creating an entire ecosystem in order to get the cdma technology adopted...