Technology

Technology is the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, including machinery, modifications, arrangements and procedures.

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The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last

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Lists

Best of The Culture

10 books — 58 voters

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Books Involving Stalking

281 books — 125 voters

Career Breakthrough Playbook by Will Lukang

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

Essential Reading for Startup Founders

192 books — 183 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

Women in Science

326 books — 103 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Best Books on Artificial Intelligence

421 books — 657 voters

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Histories of the Everyday

368 books — 335 voters

Technology Books

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

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Quotes Tagged “Technology”

“ The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. ...more ”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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“ At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me. ”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

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