History and background

Criticism, technology and society, and history.

Last updated 2019, and not currently maintained.

History

• Halt and Catch Fire offers a reasonably faithful look at tech culture, especially in the 80s and during the early days of the web

Networks and flows

• Blum, Andrew. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet.
• Moggridge, Bill. Designing Media.
• Citizenfour (film)
• Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
• Pew Internet & American Life Project

Ways of approaching design

• Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn.
• Alexander, Christopher; Ishikawa, Sara; and Silverstein, Murray. A Pattern Language. (downloadable)