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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

George Dyson

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

Frederick P. Brooks

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The Startup Drake Equation

Jason Cohen longform.asmartbear.com

not on my bingo card was james dyson engineering a mass production system for strawberries..."growing things is like making things, i'm a manufacturer, and so i suppose in a way ive approached farming from that point of view" https://t.co/FuuKc1qIoQ

Aaron Slodov x.com

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time

Nate Hopper newyorker.com

Turing's Cathedral

by George Dyson:

“Dyson’s nuanced retelling showed me the tangled history of computing—shaped by politics, war, and human ambition—and challenged my assumptions about tech as purely meritocratic.”

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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

W. Daniel Hillis longnow.org

I think it's stratified by generation, but here's an attempt. (This isn't the list of books that I think one ought to read -- it's just the list that I think roughly covers the major ideas that are influential here.) The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce Seeing Like a State The Dream Machine___LINEB... See more

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Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

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