New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
W. Patrick McCray, "README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines" (MIT Press, 2025)
In "README: A Bookish History of Computing," Dr. W. Patrick McCray argues that books were a powerful catalyst in making computers ubiquitous. The book uses a selection of books to describe the technological revolution of computing from 1945 to the early 21st century.