Books
Fiction and Perspectives
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (167)
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Francesco Colonna (1499)
- Utopia, Thomas More (1516)
- A Voyage to the Moon, Cyrano de Bergerac (1657)
- The Sandman, E.T.A. Hoffman (1817)
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)
- Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)
- Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (1867)
- A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay (1920)
- Fräulein Else, Arthur Schnitzler (1924)
- Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell (1936)
- How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie (1936)
- The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
- Animal Farm, George Orwell (1945)
- 1984, George Orwell (1949)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey (1962)
- Behavior in Public Places, Erving Goffman (1963)
- Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan (1964)
- Act of Creation, Arthur Koestler (1964)
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein (1966)
- We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, Philip K. Dick (1966)
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison (1967)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick (1968)
- Visual Thinking, Rudolf Arnheim (1969)
- Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein (1973)
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon (1973)
- Interviews with Francis Bacon, David Sylvester (1975)
- Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum (1976)
- A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick (1977)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter (1979)
- Cosmos, Carl Sagan (1980)
- Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard (1981)
- Johnny Mnemonic, William Gibson (1981)
- Turing's Man, J. David Bolter (1984)
- Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman (1985)
- The Control Revolution, James R. Beniger (1986)
- The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman (1988)
- Technopoly, Neil Postman (1992)
- Virtual Light, William Gibson (1993)
- Diaspora, Greg Egan (1997)
- The Education of a Graphic Designer, Steven Heller (1998)
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Seamus Heaney (1999, ~725)
- The Uncollected Baudrillard, Jean Baudrillard (2001 collection by Gary Genosko, ~1960s-)
- Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte (2006)
- Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Ethan Gilsdorf (2009)
- Freedomland, Anne Bean (2009)
- 3D Typography, Emily C. M. Anderson, Jeanette Abbin (2010)
- Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
- A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein (2021)
Nonfiction and Research
- The Machine Stops, E. M. Forster (1909)
- Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener (1948)
- The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener (1950)
- Faster Than Thought, B. V. Bowden (1953)
- The Copernican Revolution, Thomas S. Kuhn (1957)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)
- LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual, John McCarthy (et al.) (1962)
- Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, Marvin Minsky (1967)
- The Sciences of the Artificial, Herbet A. Simon (1968)
- Perceptrons, Marvin Minsky & Seymour Papert (1969)
- My Years with Xerox: The Billions Nobody Wanted, John H. Dessauer (1971)
- II Cybernetic Frontiers, Steward Brand (1974)
- Computer Lib / Dream Machines, Ted Nelson (1974)
- Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks (1975)
- Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth (1976)
- Literary Machines, Ted Nelson (1981)
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte (1983)
- SMALLTALK-80 "Blue, Red, Purple" Books, Adele Goldberg et al. (1983)
- The Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky (1986)
- The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, Gregor Kiczales et al. (1991)
- Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte (1995)
- Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, Dennis Shasha, Cathy Lazere (1995)
- The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan (1995)
- Visual Explanations, Edward Tufte (1997)
- The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil (1999)
- The Dream Machine, W. Mitchell Waldrop (2001)
- Free Software, Free Society, Richard Stallman (2002)
- Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, Sam Williams (2002)
- Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig (2004)
- On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2004)
- Live Graphics Nightly, Fred Lakin (2007)
- The Second Life Herald, Peter Ludlow (2007)
- The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain (2008)
- Game Feel, Steve Swink (2008)
- The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (2008)
- You are not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier (2010)
- Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman & Amos Twersky (2011)
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner (2012)
- Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety, Nancy Leveson (2012)
- Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier (2013)
- The Myth of the Objective, Kenneth Stanley and Joel Lehman (2015)
- Dawn of the New Everything, Jaron Lanier (2017)
- Inventive Minds, Marvin Minsky (2017)
- The Metaverse, Matthew Ball (2022)
- Making a Metaverse that Matters, Wagner James Au (2023)
- Means of Control, Byron Tau (2024)
Papers
- As We May Think, Vannevar Bush (Atlantic, 1945)
- Man-Computer Symbiosis, J.C.R. Licklider (1960)
- Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, Doug Engelbart (1962)
- Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network, J.C.R. Licklider (1963)
- Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system, Ivan Sutherland (1963)
- META II A SYNTAX-ORIENTED COMPILER WRITING LANGUAGE, D. V. Schorre (1963-4)
- "Information", John McCarthy (Sept 1966, Scientific American Sept pg. 65)
- The Computer as a Communication Device, J.C.R. Licklider and Bob Taylor (1968)
- Naming and synchronization in a decentralized computer system, D.P. Reed (1979)
- The Emperors Old Clothes, Tony Hoare (1980, ACM Turing Award Lecture)
- End-to-End Arguments in System Design, J.H. Saltzer et al. (1984)
- The LOCUS Distributed System Architecture, Gerald J. Popek (1985)
- A Plea for Lean Software, Niklaus Wirth (1995)
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond (1999)
- In the Beginning there was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson (1999)
- The Power Of The Context, Alan Kay (2004)
- How, Alan Kay (2019)
- ABCs of Paxos, Leslie Lamport
- The Memo (Series), Alan D. Thompson
Talks / Lectures
- AC Keynote, Doug Engelbart (2004)
- Last Lecture, Randy Pausch (2007)
- Beautiful Computers for Cynics Series, Ted Nelson (2012)
- Free is a Lie, Aral Balkan (2014)
- How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day, Tristan Harris (2017)