10 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American technology journalist and author whose 2015 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future was the first serious biography of Musk — written with Musk's cooperation but not approval — and which remains the definitive account of his early career.
Joe Tidy's book on cybercrime — a narrative account of major hacking operations and the people behind them, written from his experience as BBC's cybersecurity correspondent.
American technology journalist and author of The Qualcomm Equation — the most comprehensive account of Qualcomm's business model and the CDMA standards battle.
American technology journalist who was the personal technology columnist for the New York Times (2000–2013) and subsequently Yahoo Tech — known for accessible, consumer-focused technology reviews — author of numerous Missing Manual books on Apple products.
American journalist and anchor of Bloomberg Technology, author of Brotopia, and a prominent interviewer of technology executives.
Cade Metz's 2021 narrative history of the deep learning revolution, centering on the researchers — Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, Sutskever — who kept neural network research alive and then rode it to transform the industry.
Steven Levy's 2011 comprehensive history of Google from founding through the early 2010s, based on extraordinary access to Google's founders, executives, and engineers.
American technology journalist and author who has covered Silicon Valley since the early 1980s — writing The Intel Trinity, Bill and Dave (HP biography), and dozens of other Silicon Valley histories — making him one of the most comprehensive chroniclers of the Valley's history.
Welsh-American venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley history, who led investments in Google, Yahoo, PayPal, LinkedIn, and Stripe.
Parmy Olson's 2023 book covering the race between Google DeepMind and OpenAI for AI dominance — focusing on Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman — and the corporate and scientific rivalries that defined the early LLM era.