Books that influenced me

This short article lists the books that influenced Antony Mayfield, partner and CEO at Brilliant Noise.

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...

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