Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford and Critical Path by R Buckminster Fuller
Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
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Re: Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
#12"Cosmos" by Carl Sagan - that book was a life changer for me and has been with me ever since.
Re: Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
#13Summa Technologiae
Agreed, but with one caveat: That is the book detailling the history of future science!
Re: Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
#14John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it.
Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman (2005)
Weiner himself wrote some autobiographies, including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.
Re: Ask HN: Favourite science history book of the 20th century?
#15John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman (2005) Weiner himself wrote some autobiographies, including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician .
I believe Weiner's first volume was Ex-Prodigy. I love his story of how his dad liked to pick wild mushrooms for dinner and how he (Norbert) was never sure if he was going to wake up in the morning!