On 31.07.2013 01:56, Max R.D. Parmer wrote:
Have you read "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet" yet? Helpful for getting a good chunk of the contemporary and historical context.
You might also like: Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias Peter Ludloff http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0262621517 What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry John Markoff http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/01430367... Some random reading list on the broader spectrum: * Scott Adams: Dilbert * Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie * Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals * Günther Andreas: Die molussische Katakombe (1933), Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen * Charles Babbage: On the Mental Division of Labour * Jasper Becker: Hungry Ghosts * Frederico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden: Masterminds of Programming (2009) * Jorge Luís Borges: Any short story collection you want * John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider (1975) * Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita * Anthony Burgess * Vanevar Bush: "As We May Think" * Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, Marcovaldo * E.R. Carmin: Das schwarze Reich (2002) * C. J. Cherryh: Cyteen * Arthur C. Clark: A Meeting With Medusa (1972) * Anton Chekhov: "The Lady With the Little Dog" * The Dark Mountain Project: Dark Mountain Volume 2 (2011) * Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle * Frederick Douglass: Collected Autobiographies * Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum * Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan * Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man * Georgina Ferry: A Computer called LEO (2004) * Jasper Fforde: Shades of Gray * Illiad Frazer: User Friendly * Neil Gaiman: Sandman * Garner: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage * Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays, My Disillusionment in Russia * Gandhi: Autobiography * Gene Sharp * William Gibson * Hackerbibel 1+2 * Robert Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress * Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1999) * Andrew Hunt: The Pragmatic Programmer (1999) * Orlando Figes: A People's Tragedy * Sho Fumimura and Ryoichi Ikegami: Sanctuary * Erich Jantsch: The self-organising Universe (1979) * Robert Jungk * David Kahn: "The Codebreakers" * Paul Lafargue: Das Recht auf Faulheit. Widerlegung des Rechtes auf Arbeit. (1883) * Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution * David Lewis: Counterfactuals (2001) * Johnny Long: Stealing the Network (2009) * Peter Ludlow: Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (2001) * Ernest Mandell * John Markoff: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2006) * Werner Mayer-Eppler: Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Informationstheorie (1959) * Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom (Autobiography) * Mondo 2000 - A User's Guide to the New Edge (1992) * [[http://monochrom.at/mono/|monochrom print]] * Jenna Moran: Hitherby Dragons (online only; a book is coming out soon) * Grant Morrison: The Invisibles * Günter Myrell: Daten-Schatten * Theodor Nelson: Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) * Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata: Death Note * Manfred Osten: Das geraubte Gedächtnis (2004) * P.M.: Bolo Bolo (1983), Subcoma (2000) * [[http://www.gruenekraft.com/|Werner Pieper and the Grüne Kraft]] * Milorad Pavić: Dictionary of the Khazars * Victor Pelevin: The Yellow Arrow, The Helmet of Horror, anything you can find in English (or Russian, if you can read that) * Tim Powers: Last Call * Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 * Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1935) * Mark Russinovich: Windows Internals, Zero Day * Melissa Scott: Trouble and her Friends (or anything else, really) * Vikram Seth: The Golden Gate * Carla Speed McNeil: Finder * Oswald Spengler: Untergang des Abendlandes * Karl Steinbruch: Falsch programmiert. Über das Versagen unserer Gesellschaft... (1968) * Neal Stephenson * Daniel Suarez: Daemon, Freedom * Andrew S. Tanenbaum * Thoreau: Civil Disobedience * Tad Tuleja: The Catalog of Lost Books * Sherry Turkle: The Second Self * Vernor Vinge: "True Names", "A Deepness in the Sky", "A Fire Upon the Deep" * Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948) * Theodore J. Kaczynski * David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest * Bill Watterson: Calvin & Hobbes * Donald Westlake: Under an English Heaven * Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus * Tom Wolfe: The Electronic Cool-Aid Acid Test (1968) * Malaclypse The Younger: Principia Discordia: Or "How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her" (1965-1991)