I enjoyed Markoff's book for getting yet another perspective on some of the same events I had already read about in: Michael A. Hiltzik, _Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age_ and Steven Levy, _Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything_ I also recommend James B. Murray, Jr., _Wireless Nation: The Frenzied Launch of the Cellular Revolution in America_ Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, _Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet_ (Markoff's ex-wife) anything else by Steven Levy (_Hackers_, _Crypto_, _The Unicorn's Secret_, etc.) Po Bronson, _The Nudist on the Late Shift_ (stories from the dot com boom) and, having nothing to do with computers but quite entertaining, Paul Krassner, _Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut_ (autobiography of the editor of The Realist)