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Edited: Sep 15, 2008, 11:00pm

Book list from http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2008/09/science-in-21st-century-reading-list.html

# The Dream Machine : J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop

# Libraries of the Future by J.C.R. Licklider

# Rethinking Expertise by Harry Collins and Robert Evans

# Gravity's Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves by Harry Collins

# American Physics and the Cold War Bubble by David Kaiser

# Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives edited by David Kaiser

# The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union by Loren Graham

# Scientists in the Classroom: The Cold War Reconstruction of American Science Education by John L. Rudolph

# The Sputnik Challenge by Robert A. Divine

# Brainpower for the Cold War The Sputnik Crisis and National Defense Education Act of 1958 by Barbara Barksdale Clowse

# Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics by Peter Louis Galison

# QED and the Men Who Made It by Silvan S. Schweber

# The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial Complex at MIT and Stanford by Stuart W. Leslie

# Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild

# Sixty Days and Counting by Kim Stanley Robinson

# Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

# Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

# The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-Line Pioneers by Tom Standage

# Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace edited by Mark Tovey

# Anything by Lawrence Lessig

# The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler

# Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe

# The access principle: The case for open access to research and scholarship by John Willinsky

# Ambient Findability by Peter Morville

# Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger

# The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solove

# The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr

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