Theme
Tech & Future
Silicon, software, and the companies steering both — plus the harder question of what happens next.
24 books
newest read first
Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen · 2026 · read Jul 2026Annie Jacobsen's companion to Nuclear War: A Scenario — a minute-by-minute account of how a biological attack or lab-released…
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · 2018 · read Mar 2026Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's 2018 investigation of Theranos — Elizabeth Holmes's blood-testing startup that…
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang · 2025 · read Jan 2026Dan Wang's 2025 book on China's "engineering state" — the deliberate national-level capacity to build at scale across…
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Stephen Witt · 2025 · read Nov 2025Stephen Witt's biography of Jensen Huang and the company he founded — Nvidia's evolution from graphics-card maker to the central…
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman · 2023 · read Jun 2025DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman's argument that AI and synthetic biology are converging revolutions whose containment is the…
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee · 2025 · read Jun 2025FT reporter Patrick McGee's investigation of Apple's deep operational integration with China — not as a vendor relationship but…
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
Luis Elizondo · 2024 · read May 2025Former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo's memoir of his time running AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification…
The Age of AI and Our Human Future
Henry Kissinger · 2021 · read Apr 2025Kissinger, Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO), and Daniel Huttenlocher's 2021 framework book on AI as a paradigm-shifting…
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
Jason Schreier · 2024 · read Apr 2025Jason Schreier's institutional history of Blizzard Entertainment — Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Overwatch —…
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
Nate Silver · 2024 · read Mar 2025Nate Silver's expansive book on the culture of professional risk-taking — poker, sports betting, prediction markets, hedge funds,…
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell · 2023 · read Oct 2024Climate journalist Jeff Goodell's argument that heat — not sea-level rise or storms — is the most underappreciated immediate…
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari · 2024 · read Oct 2024Harari's 2024 book — his first major work since 21 Lessons — reframing human history as a sequence of information networks, with…
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Andy Greenberg · 2019 · read Aug 2024Wired's Andy Greenberg on Sandworm — the GRU Unit 74455 hacking group — responsible for the Ukraine power-grid attacks, the…
World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
Dmitri Alperovitch · 2024 · read Jun 2024Crowdstrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch's hawkish strategic argument that the US is in a contest with China for the 21st…
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen · 2015 · read Apr 2024Annie Jacobsen's comprehensive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, from its 1958 Sputnik-shock founding…
The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights)
Harvard Business Review · 2021 · read Nov 2023An HBR Insights collection of short essays on the changing nature of work — automation, AI, remote and hybrid arrangements, skill…
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Jennifer Pahlka · 2023 · read Nov 2023Code for America founder Jennifer Pahlka's argument that the chronic failure of US government technology — healthcare.gov,…
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson · 2023 · read Oct 2023Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of Elon Musk, based on two years of shadowing him across Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter (the…
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
Andy Greenberg · 2022 · read Jun 2023Wired's Andy Greenberg on the rise of blockchain forensics — Chainalysis, federal investigators, academic cryptographers — and…
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari · 2022 · read Feb 2023Hari's argument — built from interviews with attention researchers worldwide — that the collapse of attention isn't individual…
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller · 2022 · read Feb 2023Miller's history of the semiconductor industry from postwar invention to present-day US-China conflict — argued as the central…
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Jacquie McNish · 2015 · read Dec 2022The inside story of Research in Motion's rise to global smartphone dominance and its rapid collapse after the iPhone — told…
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · 2018 · read Jul 2022Harari's present-focused volume (after Sapiens on the past and Homo Deus on the future), tackling the immediate disruptions — AI,…
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2015 · read Jul 2022Picking up where Sapiens ended, Harari argues that humanity's next project — having largely solved famine, plague, and war — is…