A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Even with Stephen Hawking's attempts to make this easy I didn't understand much of it at all

City of Light
Jeff Hecht
Very reasonable read of the history of fiber optics and simple explanations of the relevant technology

E=mc2
David Bodanis
Ever wonder what this equation really means and where it came from

Engines of creation
Eric Drexler
Superb 1986 primer for anyone wanting the basics on nanotechnology

Going Mobile
Keri Hayes & Susan Kuchinskas
Wonderful piece describing and explaining successful deployments of wireless technologies

Information Rules
Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian
Macchiavelli goes to Silicon Valley and a near must-read for anyone in the technology world… One of my favorites though the authors make no attempt to make it easy

Inside the Tornado
Geoffrey A. Moore
Development of tech products and markets… outstanding… a classic

OnIntelligence
Jeff Hawkins
The inventor of the Palm provides a simple to "get" theory on how the brain works and the implications

Only The Paranoid Survive
Andrew S. Grove
From Intel's chairman --  chronicle of the company's development

Serious Play
Michael Schrage
One of the tech world's best thinkers gets at why it helps to prototype early and often

The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil
Fun… unless Ray Kurzweil's look at the world head scares the life out of you…  his vision of life beyond 2010 is provocative

The Hunt for Zero Point
Nick Cook
Multi-year investigation on the technology behind anti-gravity technology (meaning --> UFOs)

The Hype About Hydrogen
Joseph Romm
Review of alternative energy  options and a balanced view of the obstacles ahead in getting to a hydrogen economy

The Perfect Store
Adam Cohen
Really enjoyable look at the development of Ebay -- one of the exceptions to the genral rule that dot-coms were poorly though out disasters

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler  
A superb dicussion of the wide effects of technology and the internet on society... Pages 356-377 are as near a must read as we ever see -- the discussion on the number of increasing loose topic specific relationships is eye opening.

The Wright Brothers: The Remarkable Story of the Aviation Pioneers Who Changed the World
by Ian Mackersey
Spectacular story of a very unusual family. A story of teamwork, ingenuity, rapid prototyping, fame, amateurism as well as poor business savvy, scummy competitors, paranoia and useless attempts to sue everyone for copyright infringement. Oh -- and the notable lack of ingenuity/progress created by distractions. The Wright Brothers made some decent money. Others made the real dollars.

Using Sans and NAS
W. Curtis Preston
The differences between storage area networks and network attached storage explained in, well, almost common english