Books, articles, and essays for further reading
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari (Browse)
Energy and Civilisation – Vaclav Smil (Browse)
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years – Jared Diamond (Browse)
The Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology – K. Drexler (Browse)
Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth – James Bessen (Browse)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress – Steven Pinker (Browse)
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War – Robert J. Gordon (Browse)
Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation – J. Manyika (Browse)
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization – V. Smil (Browse)
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation – Edwin Black (Browse)
The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer – Georges Ifrah (Browse)
Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Late Charles Babbage – Harry Wilmot Buxton and Anthony Hyman (Browse)
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher – Charles Babbage (Browse)
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood – James Gleick (Browse)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A. M. Turing (Browse)
A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility – Lesley B. Cormack and Andrew Ede (Browse)
Polemic against Printing – Filippo de Strata (Browse)
Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society – John Browne, Robin Nuttall and Tommy Stadlen (Browse)
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You – Eli Pariser (Browse)
The Lost Secrets of Maya Technology – James O’Kon (Browse)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Jared Diamond (Browse)
An Essay on the Principle of Population – Thomas Malthus (Browse)
Urban world: Cities and the Rise of the Consuming Class – R. Dobbs, J. Remes, J. Manyika, C. Roxburgh, S. Smit and F. Schaer (Browse)
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human – Richard Wrangham (Browse)
The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo (Browse)
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time – John Kelly (Browse)
Wilbur And Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers – Fred Howard (Browse)
The Better Angels of Our Nature – Steven Pinker (Browse)
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths – Mariana Mazzucato (Browse)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time – Dava Sobel (Browse)
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space – Deborah Cadbury (Browse)
Cholera: The Biography – Christopher Hamlin (Browse)
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery – Richard Hollingham (Browse)
Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History – James C. Riley (Browse)
Think Like an Engineer – Guru Madhavan (Browse)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – V (Browse)
Enigma: The Battle for the Code – Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (Browse)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom (Browse)