How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets

I really liked this book, it was good, but it could have been much better. The author does a good job telling the story of technology and the stock markets but I think that better editing could have made this book great. To be fair, the subject matter was complex, and to me very interesting, but it did not flow as well as it could have. The author has had many careers and felt that the book should have some humor in it (and I agree) but he is not a stand-up comic and the book could have used less funny business and more serious business. For better examples of just the right amount of lightness to keep the complex readable see books by Hugh MacLeod, Paul B. Brown and the great Henry Petroski.