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Books like The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
The best books like The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal are Steve Jobs, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, and The Innovator's Dilemma. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop is about computing history, innovation, human-computer interaction. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson · Biography
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs was authorized by Jobs himself, who gave Isaacson more than forty hours of interviews and opened up his family, friends, and colleagues to the same scrutiny.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel · Business
Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - The Innovator's Dilemma
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Robert Coram · Biography
Boyd is Robert Coram's biography of Colonel John Boyd, the Air Force fighter pilot who became one of the most influential military strategists of the twentieth century without ever having commanded a major unit, written a best-selling book, or achieved the rank that would have made him famous while alive.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance · Biography
Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk is the most comprehensive account of Musk's life and companies up to 2015, written with Musk's cooperation after an initial refusal and a long negotiation.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - The Little Kingdom
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Michael Moritz · Biography
The Little Kingdom is the first serious book about Apple Computer, written in 1984 while the company was still young and its founders were still defining what it would become.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler · Biography
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is Neal Gabler's authorized biography, drawing on Disney's personal papers and company archives that had been closed to researchers for decades.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
Both dig into technology and society.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Blue Ocean Strategy
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W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Business
Blue Ocean Strategy is Kim and Mauborgne's case that the most successful companies don't compete in existing markets by beating rivals at their own game — they create new market spaces where competition is irrelevant.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Competing Against Luck
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.
Both dig into innovation.
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Books like The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal: quick answers
What are the best books like The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal?
The best books like The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop are Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal, such as computing history, innovation, human-computer interaction.
What should I read after The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal?
A natural next read after The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal is Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Both dig into innovation. Other strong choices are Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou.
What books are similar to The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop?
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal centers on computing history, innovation, human-computer interaction. Books with a similar feel include Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
