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'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’s cars flocking the streets. Revolution on...

A former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by the military, and for mere pennies on the dollar. Want to purchase satellite tracking software? No problem. Aerospace and aviation simulations? No problem. Communications systems designs? No problem.

One of Time magazine's '32 Books You Need to Read This Summer' -- 'a riveting read'. 'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.' Vanity Fair 'A fascinating work of imaginative futurology, a science journalist takes a look at our current technologies and anticipates...

In this bestselling work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner George Anders presents a behind-the-scenes account of a struggle that rocked Wall Street and stunned the computer industry. When Carly Fiorina took command of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, she was venturing further than any...

At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how...

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...

Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is...

For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

Bloomsbury presents Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean, read by Mark Meadows Remember the ZX Spectrum? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite or master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist? For anyone growing up in the 1980s...

Artificial intelligence plays a major role in our lives now, and its pervasive influence spreads faster by the day. This book is for the curious who ponder not just how AI will shape our future but how we can shape AI to reflect our highest values and aspirations. It's for those seeking to understand the profound changes AI promises for our personal lives, careers, and the very fabric of society. And it's all told in an accessible narrative to inform and entertain.

By turns fascinating and scary, Artificial Intelligence takes the listener on an amazing journey that covers everything from the habits of ants to the world of the stock market. This edition has been fully updated to take account of the latest developments.

Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel Lefkow The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and...

Why You’re Still Smarter Than AI: The Hidden Limits of Machine Thinking is a bold, deeply analytical, and empowering guide that dismantles the myth of AI supremacy. This isn't another book predicting robot takeovers or tech utopias—it’s a profound examination of what machines fundamentally lack and what makes human intelligence irreplaceable.

‘Exciting and brilliantly reported’ Walter Isaacson This is the story of the twenty-first century’s Manhattan Project: the trillion-dollar sprint to create artificial general intelligence. For the last decade, a handful of companies have been racing to build the most powerful technology in...

Serious Machines is an essential audiobook for technology enthusiasts, computer science students, and anyone interested in the hidden history behind the tools that built our modern digital world. Best-selling author of The Sentient Machine and serial entrepreneur, Amir Husain takes listeners on a fascinating journey through the development of powerful computational tools that revolutionized fields like engineering, science, and entertainment.

Terrence Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go about understanding LLMs? Do these language models truly understand what they are saying? Or is it possible that what appears to be intelligence in LLMs may be a mirror that merely reflects the intelligence of the interviewer? In this book, Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational approaches to understanding brain function, answers all our urgent questions about this astonishing new technology.

The Untold Story of Everything Digital: Bright Boys, Revisited celebrates the 70th anniversary (1949-2019) of the world "going digital" for the very first time—real-time digital computing’s genesis story.

„Wie KI unsere Zukunft gestalten wird“ ist in einem leicht verständlichen Stil geschrieben und widmet sich einer der zentralen Fragen unserer Zeit: Was können wir von der rasanten Entwicklung der KI erwarten? Wie wird sie unser Leben und unsere Gesellschaft in den kommenden Jahrzehnten verändern?

The book spans millennia, tracing the impact of trailblazing women in technology. In early chapters, meet historical figures from the first century to the early 1800s, whose contributions laid the groundwork for today's advancements. Dive into stories of mixed digital artist Thea Baumann, actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, and pioneering programmer Betty Snyder alongside virtual reality specialist Claire Blackshaw. Discover modern innovators like Kayleigh Oliver, a woman of color waving the flag for programming all whilst balancing motherhood and tech.

This book traces the Internet's development from its theoretical foundations in the 1950s through its maturation as a global network by 2025. It explores not only the technical milestones and breakthrough innovations but also the social, economic, and political forces that shaped its growth. The story of the Internet is simultaneously a tale of brilliant individual inventors, collaborative scientific communities, corporate competition, government policy, and grassroots adoption.