From John Naughton’s top 10 books about the internet
So, in the end, I asked myself the question: what would you really need to know in order to understand the significance of the internet? The answer is that you need to understand a smallish number of Big Ideas. But how many? Then I remembered a famous paper published by the psychologist George Miller which argued that on average people can hold seven discrete ideas (plus or minus two) in short-term memory. This led to the idea of a book with nine chapters – the nine things you really need to know about the net. If you’re interested, it’s a good idea to read the following 10 books as well.”
Interesting — add these to the reading list…
- The Internet Galaxy by Manuel Castells
- The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
- The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain
- Transmission by Hari Kunzru
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- You are not a gadget by Jaron Lanier
- Republic.com by Cass Sunstein
- The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov
- Darwin Among the Machines: the evolution of global intelligence by George Dyson
- Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
