About: The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner is a well-researched history of Bell Labs and a few of the people who changed our lives. Mr. Gertner is an author and editor at Fast […]
In The Innovators, Walter Isaacson writes about collaborative governments, academia, and even hackers to create what we now know as the Internet.
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America traces, and more importantly documents, the history of Silicon Valley and the digital revolution
Not only it is about the space program, but also about bright people preserving and making a name for themselves through education and smarts.