The Year in Tech
β 2013 | 2015 β
I use these posts to track what I read and watched from 2014, so I can reference them later
Material I find particularly interesting is marked with a β¨
π The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company by π»Girotra & Netessine
π Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
π Adventures in Raspberry Pi by Carrie Anne Philbin
π Getting Started with Sensors by Kimmo Karvinen
πβ¨The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses & Geeks Created the Digital Revolutionβ¨ by Walter Isaacson
πΊ BBC: Cybercrimes by Ben Hammersley
πΊ Frontline: United States of Secrets: How the Government Came to Spy on Millions of Americans / Generation Like: Are Kids Using Social Media or Is Social Media Using Kids? by PBS
π§ 21st Century Mythologies by BBC Radio 4
π§ Hidden Histories of the Information Age by BBC Radio 4
πΊ The Hacker Wars
πΊ Citizenfour by HBO
π Make a Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot: Building a Rover with Python, Linux, Motors & Sensors by Wolfram Donat
πΊ The Internetβs Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
πΊ Atari: Game Over
πΊ The Imitation Game
π CIO, Apr. - May
π IEEE Spectrum, Jan. - Dec.
π No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA & the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
π Wired, Jan. - Dec.
π Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
π What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
π Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
π Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights & Protecting Your Family by Theresa M. Payton
π The Robot Book: Build & Control 20 Electric Gizmos, Moving Machines & Hacked Toys by Bobby Mercer
πΊ Codebreaker by Channel 4
π IEEE Todayβs Engineer, Jan. - Mar.
π IEEE Institute, Jan.
π Teach Yourself Visually Raspberry Pi by Richard Wentk
π Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery by John Browne
π Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
π The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance & Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
π How We Got to Now: 6 Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson