1. The printing press as an agent of change
By Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1982
The best place to look for understanding of the present is the past. The story of how print changed Europe and then the world is incredible and from the 'Silicon Valley' of printers around Venice to the way that the medium changed the very way we think, this book helped me grasp just how much of a real revolution the web represented.
2. The origin of wealth
By Eric Beinhocker
Published by Random House Business, 2007
Beinhocker shows how applying the...